rebetiko
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek ρεμπέτικο (rempétiko, “rebetiko”).
Noun
rebetiko (countable and uncountable, plural rebetika)
- (music) A Greek urban folk song, characterised by lyrics about underworld activity, and played generally on stringed instruments including the bouzouki.
- 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin:
- I need another player to put a Greek melody over the top, perhaps a rebetiko of some sort.
- (music, in the plural) This style of music; such music as a genre.
- 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 172:
- At the time, these earliest songs of the rebetika tradition were a symptom and a particular manifestation of a wider climate of violence, criminality and despair, whether real or imagined, that permeated the Greek capital around the turn of the century.
Translations
type of Greek urban folk music
Further reading
Turkish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
rebetiko
Declension
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rebetiko | |
| Definite accusative | rebetikoyu | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | rebetiko | rebetikolar |
| Definite accusative | rebetikoyu | rebetikoları |
| Dative | rebetikoya | rebetikolara |
| Locative | rebetikoda | rebetikolarda |
| Ablative | rebetikodan | rebetikolardan |
| Genitive | rebetikonun | rebetikoların |