Etymology

sarabande

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Today it means: A 16th-century Spanish dance. Full definition →

French sarabande ← Spanish zarabanda
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The story

  1. Spanish · derived fromzarabanda
  2. French · borrowed fromsarabande
  3. English todaysarabande

Borrowed from French sarabande, from Spanish zarabanda.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.