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語源

Borrowed from Portuguese cavaquinho, from the diminutive of cavaco (“fragment of wood”).

発音

• IPA: /kavaˈkiːnjuː/

名詞

cavaquinho (plural cavaquinhos)

1. A small guitar-string instrument of Portuguese origin, with four wire or gut strings, played with a plectrum.
   • 2022 February 7, Jonathan Blitzer, “How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit”, in The New Yorker‎, →ISSN:

     One person came back with a guitar, another with a Brazilian-style ukulele called a cavaquinho, and a third with a tambourine and a tantam drum with a long, thick neck.

同意語

• braguinha
• braguinho

参考

• Appendix:Glossary of string instruments

参照

• 2005. Choro: A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music. Tamara Elena Livingston, Thomas George. Pg. 5.