Etymology

marrabenta

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Today it means: A genre of popular Mozambican dance music. Full definition →

Portuguese rebentar
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The story

  1. Portuguese · derived fromrebentar“to break”
  2. English todaymarrabenta

Possibly from Portuguese rebentar (“to break”) (arrabentar in the local vernacular).

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