beguine
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From American French béguine, from French béguin.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
beguine (plural beguines)
- A ballroom dance, similar to a slow rumba, originally from French West Indies and popularized abroad largely through the song "Begin the Beguine"; the music for the dance.
- 1935, Cole Porter, Begin the Beguine:
- When they begin the beguine, / It brings back the sound of music so tender / It brings back the night of tropical splendor, / It brings back a memory ever green.
- 1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, 2003, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard (editors), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14: Autobiography, page 69,
- It was a haunting kind of beguine with a strange sad lyric about slavery and freedom set against insistent drums and voluptuous maracas:
- 2003, Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora, page 174:
- He is especially fascinated by the chacha, the percussion instrument that sets the basic rolling rhythmic foundation of the beguine and propels the dancers, writing that “the tempo is set by a shiny tin container filled with pebbles. […] ″
Translations[edit]
ballroom dance
music
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
beguine
- beguine (dance and music)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of beguine (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | beguine | beguinet | ||
genitive | beguinen | beguinejen | ||
partitive | beguinea | beguineja | ||
illative | beguineen | beguineihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | beguine | beguinet | ||
accusative | nom. | beguine | beguinet | |
gen. | beguinen | |||
genitive | beguinen | beguinejen | ||
partitive | beguinea | beguineja | ||
inessive | beguinessa | beguineissa | ||
elative | beguinesta | beguineista | ||
illative | beguineen | beguineihin | ||
adessive | beguinella | beguineilla | ||
ablative | beguinelta | beguineilta | ||
allative | beguinelle | beguineille | ||
essive | beguinena | beguineina | ||
translative | beguineksi | beguineiksi | ||
abessive | beguinetta | beguineitta | ||
instructive | — | beguinein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading[edit]
- “beguine”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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