Etymology

bachata

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Today it means: A genre of music originating in the Dominican Republic. Full definition →

Spanish bachata
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The story

  1. Spanish · borrowed frombachata“party, good time”
  2. English todaybachata

From Caribbean Spanish bachata (“party, good time”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.