beguine

== English == === Etymology === From American French béguine, from French béguin. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /beɪˈɡiːn/ (US) IPA(key): /bəˈɡiːn/ Rhymes: -iːn === Noun === beguine (plural beguines) A ballroom dance, similar to a slow rumba, originally from French West Indies and popularized abroad largely through the song "Begin the Beguine"; the music for the dance. 1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, 2003, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard (editors), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14: Autobiography, page 69, It was a haunting kind of beguine with a strange sad lyric about slavery and freedom set against insistent drums and voluptuous maracas: ==== Translations ==== == Finnish == === Etymology === From French béguine. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbeɡiːn/, [ˈbe̞ɡiːn] Rhymes: -eɡiːn === Noun === beguine beguine (dance and music) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “beguine”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023