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cabana

See also: Cabana and cabaña

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Borrowed from Spanish cabaña and Portuguese cabana, both from Late Latin capanna. Doublet of cabane and cabin.

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cabana (plural cabanas)

  1. A cabin or hut for relaxing.
  2. (Canada, US) A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool.
    • 1968, Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
      “So what's new in the whiskey business?” one of the fat men finally says by way of welcome, and the blonde stands up, arches one foot and dips it into the pool, looking all the while at the cabana where Baby Pignatari is talking on the telephone.

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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cabana f (plural cabanes)

  1. Alternative form of cabanya (“hut”)

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Galician

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A cabana, Ourol, northern Galicia
 
Next to a house, and used as a barn

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From Late Latin capanna, attested by Isidore of Seville, and well documented in local Medieval charters at least since the 10th century. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Cognate of English cabin.

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cabana f (plural cabanas)

  1. cabin, hut, shack; barn
    Synonyms: alboio, alpendre, cabanel, pendello
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 88:
      pensarõ que mellores moradas poderiam aver que as que aviam, et buscarõ mays sobre esto, et tomarõ madeyros que arrymarõ aas pẽnas et aas grandes aruores et cobriã aqueles madeyros dos rramos das aruores et das eruas, et fezerõ logo desto moradas pequenas asy cõmo cabanas ou choças enque morassem.
      they though that they could get better dwellings than that that they had, so they searched about this, and they took logs that they supported against boulders and against large trees, and they covered them with branches and grasses, and so they made of these some minor dwellings, such as cabins or huts, where they can live

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Occitan

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From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin capanna.

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cabana f (plural cabanas)

  1. (Gascony, Languedoc, Provençal) cabin, hut

Portuguese

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nɐ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧na

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cabana f (plural cabanas)

  1. cabin, hut, shack
    Synonym: choça

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  • “cabana” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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