Dictionary

cachaça en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kəˈʃɑ.sə/ (General-American)
• /kəˈʃɑː.sə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese cachaça, of uncertain origin.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A type of distilled spirit made from fermented sugar cane juice, popular in Brazil, used as one of the ingredients of a caipirinha.
   • Neat cachaça put fire in your belly and stilled the pangs of hunger. 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 34:
   • A line of ants heads across the table, detouring around the bottle of cachaça that is now empty. 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 222:

Forms

Translations (5)

pt pinga (distilled spirit from sugar cane) · ja カシャッサ (distilled spirit from sugar cane) · pt cachaça (distilled spirit from sugar cane) · es cachaza (distilled spirit from sugar cane) · tpw kaûĩtatá (distilled spirit from sugar cane)