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parranda

parranda noun: a Venezuelan genre of music with African influences and drumming.

Noun

parranda (uncountable)

  1. A Venezuelan genre of music with African influences and drumming.
    • The nonpurist result is world-music fusion, linking the Central American parranda and punta to African and Latin pop, flamenco, even electric blues.2008 March 16, Jon Pareles, “Sounds Soft and Tough, and a Star in the Trunk”, in New York Times

Origin of parranda

Borrowed from Spanish parranda.

Questions about parranda

What does parranda mean?
Parranda means a Venezuelan genre of music with African influences and drumming.
What part of speech is parranda?
Parranda is a noun.

Words near parranda in the dictionary

  1. Parraleses
  2. parrals
  3. Parramatta
  4. Parramore
  5. Parramores
  6. parranda
  7. parraqua
  8. parraquas
  9. Parras
  10. parrat
  11. Parrato

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