cabana

See also: Cabana, cabaña, and cabană

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈbænə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈbɑːnə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ænə, -ɑːnə

Noun

cabana (plural cabanas)

1. A cabin or hut for relaxing.
2. (Canada, US, Australia) 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.

Derived terms

• cabana boy
• cabana set
• cabana shirt

Translations

a cabin or hut, shelter on a beach

Chinese: Mandarin: 小屋 (zh) (xiǎowū) German: Hütte (de) f, Unterstand (de) m Indonesian: kabana Italian: cabina (it) f, capanna (it) f Malay: kabana Polish: cabana (pl) f, kabina plażowa f Portuguese: cabana (pt) f, choupana (pt) f Spanish: cabaña (es) f

See also

• cabin

Further reading

• “cabana”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Catalan

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈβa.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈba.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈba.na]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

cabana f (plural cabanes)

1. alternative form of cabanya (“hut”)

Derived terms

• cabanera

Further reading

• “cabana”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007