conga
English
Etymology
For the dance:
Pronunciation
Noun
conga (plural congas)
- (music) A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin.
- (dance) A march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain. [from 1935]
- 1979, John Storm Roberts, The Latin Tinge, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 81–82:
- The conga dance, with its long line that might eventually sweep in everybody in the place, and the kick on the fourth beat and the fruited headdress that were to become her trademarks.
Derived terms
Translations
drum
Verb
conga (third-person singular simple present congas, present participle congaing, simple past and past participle congaed)
- To dance the conga.
See also
Further reading
- conga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- conga line on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔŋ.ɡaː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: con‧ga
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “conga”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Romanian
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkonɡa/ [ˈkõŋ.ɡa]
- Rhymes: -onɡa
- Syllabification: con‧ga
Further reading
- “conga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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