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語源 1

From Cuban/Latin American Spanish cha-cha, imitative of the music.

名詞

cha-cha (plural cha-chas)

1. (dance) A ballroom dance to a Latin American rhythm.
2. (music) The music for this dance.

動詞

cha-cha (third-person singular simple present cha-chas, present participle cha-chaing, simple past and past participle cha-chaed)

1. (intransitive) To dance the cha-cha.

同意語

• cha-cha-cha

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “cha-cha”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

語源 2

名詞

cha-cha (plural cha-chas)

1. (Philippines, politics, colloquial) Abbreviation of charter change.

語源 1

Borrowed from Georgian ჭაჭა (č̣ač̣a).

名詞

chacha (countable and uncountable, plural chachas)

1. A traditional Georgian clear strong liquor distilled from pomace.

   Synonyms: Georgian brandy, Georgian vodka, grape vodka, vine vodka

語源 2

名詞

chacha (plural chachas)

1. (music) A type of cylindrical metal rattle, derived from an instrument in the Haitian musical tradition, and used to play rhythm in certain Cuban genres (and in other nearby countries).
   • 2012, Joan Bouza Koster, Growing Artists: Teaching the Arts to Young Children, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 299:

     Display rhythm instruments from other cultures, such as Tibetan singing bowls; carved frog and cricket wood rasps from Indonesia; rain sticks and goat hoof chachas rattles from Bolivia; the telavi from Ghana; and woven shakers from Africa, Brazil, and India.

使用する際の注意点

There is also an unrelated Cuban genre of music called cha-cha.

語源 3

From Hindi चाचा (cācā).

名詞

chacha (plural chachas)

1. (India) An uncle, especially one's father's younger brother.
   • 1958, The Illustrated Weekly of India:

     "Mama!" shouted Papi running forward, dragging Kaku along with him. Well, you can just imagine the happy scene! […] Looking across the courtyard he caught his chacha's eyes and they smiled and twinkled at him in secret understanding.

   • 2011, Sonia Golani, Corporate Divas, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

     She also admires her chachas—Sajjan's engineering bent of mind, Ratan's financial acumen and Naveen's abilities as a great communicator.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chacha.