Meaning of "comparsa" in the Portuguese dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF COMPARSA IN PORTUGUESE

com · par · sa

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPARSA

Comparsa is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMPARSA MEAN IN PORTUGUESE?

Comparsa

Comparsa

The term comparsa refers to carnival groupings, where its members parade or dance in the streets, playing a song of their own. The instruments, dance and character of the parade are specific to each country in which they exist, and in many world carnivals are competitions where they compete for various prizes. The term comparsa is understood as analogous to that of the carnival block, in Portuguese, or of Krewe, in English.

O termo comparsa refere-se a agrupamentos carnavalesco, onde seus integrantes desfilam ou dançam pelas ruas, tocando uma música própria. Os instrumentos, a dança e o caráter do desfile é específico para cada país em que elas existem, e em muitos carnavais do mundo são competições onde eles competem por diversos prêmios. O termo comparsa é entendido como análogo ao de bloco carnavalesco, em português, ou de krewe, em inglês.

SYNONYMS OF «COMPARSA» IN PORTUGUESE

The following Portuguese words have a similar or identical meaning as «comparsa» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Portuguese synonyms of comparsa

parceiro · sócio

TRANSLATION OF COMPARSA

Find out the translation of comparsa to 25 languages with our Portuguese multilingual translator.

The translations of comparsa from Portuguese to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «comparsa» in Portuguese.

• Translator Portuguese - Chinese: 帮凶
• Translator Portuguese - Spanish: (En inglés)
• Translator Portuguese - English: Comparsa
• Translator Portuguese - Hindi: साथी
• Translator Portuguese - Arabic: متواطئ
• Translator Portuguese - Russian: соучастник
• Portuguese: comparsa
• Translator Portuguese - Bengali: যোগদানকারী
• Translator Portuguese - French: complice
• Translator Portuguese - Malay: Comparsa
• Translator Portuguese - German: Komplize
• Translator Portuguese - Japanese: ぐる
• Translator Portuguese - Korean: 공범자
• Translator Portuguese - Javanese: accomplice
• Translator Portuguese - Vietnamese: đồng lõa
• Translator Portuguese - Tamil: மனைவியை
• Translator Portuguese - Marathi: साथीदार
• Translator Portuguese - Turkish: suç ortağı
• Translator Portuguese - Italian: complice
• Translator Portuguese - Polish: wspólnik
• Translator Portuguese - Ukrainian: співучасник
• Translator Portuguese - Romanian: complice
• Translator Portuguese - Greek: συνένοχος
• Translator Portuguese - Afrikaans: medepligtige
• Translator Portuguese - Swedish: medbrottsling
• Translator Portuguese - Norwegian: medskyldig

10 PORTUGUESE BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPARSA»

Discover the use of comparsa in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to comparsa and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Portuguese literature.

Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba

Dr. Mercedes Herrera, whose father was an Abakuá title-holder and a comparsa director, explained why the comparsa directors would be Abakuá members: It is like that because these people are respected in the barrio, they are not weak, ...

Ivor L Miller, 2010

Mario Sanchez: Better Than Ever

47 Viva Abelardo Boza y su Comparsa Late 1970s–early 1980s 18 x 36 inches 48 Fiesta in Old Key West,Al Boza's Comparsa Late 1970s–early 1980s 16 x 23 inches Both these intaglios celebrate Abelardo Boza,the founder of the Cayo ...

Nance Frank, Mario Sanchez, 2010

Music and the Racial Imagination

within the new comparsa are children of one of the leaders of the first comparsa of the 1940s. The members of this new comparsa have continued to feel since the reinvention that this dance is the one that goes best with their personalities and ...

Ronald M. Radano, Philip V. Bohlman, 2000

Cuba

COMPARSA A comparsa (kohm-PAR-sa ) is a theatrical term that covers the dance and music, as well as the performers, associated with a carnival. Traditionally, members of a community got together and organized a comparsa as their ...

Sean Sheehan, Leslie Jermyn, 2005

Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic ...

Se va la comparsa negra bajo el sol moviendo los hombros, bajando el clamor Y ¡sube la loma! (Y baja el clamor. Pasa la comparsa mientras baja el sol.) Los diablitos de la sangre se enciende de ron y sol. Bailan las negras rumberas con  ...

Robin Moore, 1998

Comparsa

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A comparsa (conga de comparsa) is the band which plays a conga during a Latin American Carnival celebration.

Antigone Fernande, 2012

Shaping Society Through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in ...

In fact, I found that a few members of the Tuntuna had relatives in the Majenos comparsa. Although only a few of the leading members of the comparsa were children of bus owners, this comparsa was still known in the town as that of the ...

Zoila S. Mendoza, 2000

Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic ...

As representations of neighborhoods, the comparsa is a fiesta traslaticia, or open -air representation by parading actors who play, sing, and dance. Like rumba, the term comparsa carries a surplus of meaning. Fernando Ortiz (1951) defined ...

Kuss, Malena

Creating a Latino Identity in the Nation's Capital: The ...

In between these extremes, a unit might consist of a single component, such as a sound truck with a comparsa, a car, a float, a band on a flatbed, or a truck, or a combination of any of these components. (See figure 20.) Figure 20. Typical ...

Olivia Cadaval, 1998

Changuito: A Master's Approach to Timbales

The group which plays conga is called comparsa. (This group is relatively like the samba schools in Brasil. ) The drums used for conga are similar throughout the island, except in Santiago de Cuba where the comparsas use bocii, a cone- ...

José Luis Quintana, Chuck Silverman, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPARSA»

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Traficante que mandou matar comparsa é preso, na Zona Leste

Segundo informações do titular da DEHS, delegado Ivo Martins, Erinaldo é traficante da área e mandou o comparsa dele, identificado como Diogo Sidney ... «EM TEMPO online, Oct 15»

Polícia prende acusado de ser comparsa de traficantes

A Polícia Militar prendeu, na noite desse domingo (4), Diego Pontes da Silva, de 19 anos, acusado de ser comparsa de um dos traficantes mais procurados de ... «PBAgora - A Paraíba o tempo todo, Oct 15»

Assaltante é preso em Piripiri; comparsa consegue fugir

Assaltante é preso em Piripiri; comparsa consegue fugir. Assaltantes subtraíram uma quantia aproximada de R$ 1.500, além de cartões de crédito e ... «Portal O Dia, Sep 15»

Infrator é detido após ligar para comparsa detido em delegacia

Um criminoso foi detido após ligar para o comparsa e um policial atender e se passar pelo amigo que estava detido em uma unidade policial. Os suspeitos ... «Globo.com, Aug 15»

Ladrão é preso ao ir à delegacia saber do comparsa

Um caso inusitado ocorreu domingo (30) durante o registro de um flagrante de roubo a transeunte: após um dos acusados ser detido, o comparsa foi até a ... «Jornal Cruzeiro do Sul, Aug 15»

Bandido fica nervoso e atira em comparsa em Maceió, diz polícia

Um homem suspeito de assalto foi baleado pelo próprio comparsa durante uma tentativa de assalto na manhã desta quinta-feira (20), no bairro da Santa ... «Globo.com, Aug 15»

Suspeito de matar comparsa e esfaquear taxista se entrega em BH

A Polícia Civil informou, nesta quinta-feira (20), que o suspeito de matar um comparsa e esfaquear um taxista em Mateus Leme, na Região Metropolitana de ... «Globo.com, Aug 15»

Homem apontado como comparsa de mais procurado de MG é preso

Segundo a Polícia Civil, ele seria comparsa de “Alemão”, detido em Goiás em abril deste ano. O homem, de 39 anos, era o mais procurado de Minas Gerais e ... «Globo.com, Jul 15»

PM detém trio suspeito de invadir hospital para resgatar comparsa …

A Polícia Militar do Distrito Federal prendeu na manhã deste sábado (18) um homem e apreendeu dois adolescentes suspeitos de tentar resgatar um comparsa ... «Globo.com, Jul 15»

Suspeito de pelo menos duas mortes, comparsa de 'Paulinho Mega …

Foi preso em Salvador, na manhã desta quarta-feira (15), um homem de 38 anos apontado como comparsa de Paulo Roberto Gomez Guimarães Filho, ... «Globo.com, Jul 15»