cachaça

See also: cachaca

English

Etymology

From Portuguese cachaça.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kəˈʃɑː.sə/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧cha‧ça

Noun

cachaça (countable and uncountable, plural cachaças)

  1. A type of Brazilian white rum made of sugar cane juice, used as one of the ingredients of a caipirinha. [from 19th c.]
    • 1984, Helen R. Lane, translating Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society 2012, p. 222:
      A line of ants heads across the table, detouring around the bottle of cachaça that is now empty.
    • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury 2005, p. 34:
      Neat cachaça put fire in your belly and stilled the pangs of hunger.

Translations

Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain, possibly from cachaço (“boar”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈʃa.sɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈʃa.sa/

  • Rhymes: -asɐ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧cha‧ça

Noun

cachaça f (plural cachaças)

  1. cachaça (a type of Brazilian rum)
    Synonyms: aguardente, aguardente de cana, cana, (Rio Grande do Sul) canha, pinga
  2. (Brazil, informal) any alcoholic beverage, especially a distilled spirit; booze; grog
  • cachaçada
  • cachaçaria
  • cachaceiro
  • encachaçado
  • encachaçar

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (Spain) /kaˈt͡ʃaθa/ [kaˈt͡ʃa.θa]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /kaˈt͡ʃasa/ [kaˈt͡ʃa.sa]
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -aθa
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -asa

Noun

cachaça m (plural cachaças)

  1. cachaça
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