rebetiko
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Greek urban folk song, characterised by lyrics about underworld activity, and played generally on stringed instruments including the bouzouki.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I need another player to put a Greek melody over the top, perhaps a rebetiko of some sort."
- "At the time, these earliest songs of the rebetika tradition were a symptom and a particular manifestation of a wider climate of violence, criminality and despair, whether real or imagined, that permeated the Greek capital around the turn of the century."
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek ρεμπέτικο (rempétiko, “rebetiko”).
Origin
- Source language: Greek
Word Breakdown
- Root: ρεμπέτικο
Usage
Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
laiko