descarga

See also: descargá

English

Etymology

From Spanish descarga.

Noun

descarga (plural descargas)

1. (music) A jam session in the tradition of Cuban music
   • 2007 January 12, “Rock/Pop Listings”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Jimmy Bosch is a trombonist who savors the Latin jazz tradition of the descarga, a jam session everyone can dance to.

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese descárrega, deverbal from descarregar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /desˈkaʁ.ɡɐ/ [desˈkaɦ.ɡɐ], /d͡ʒisˈkaʁ.ɡɐ/ [d͡ʒisˈkaɦ.ɡɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /desˈkaʁ.ɡɐ/ [desˈkaɦ.ɡɐ], /d͡ʒisˈkaʁ.ɡɐ/ [d͡ʒisˈkaɦ.ɡɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /desˈkaɾ.ɡɐ/, /d͡ʒisˈkaɾ.ɡɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /deʃˈkaʁ.ɡɐ/, /d͡ʒiʃˈkaʁ.ɡɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /desˈkaɻ.ɡa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨʃˈkaɾ.ɡɐ/ [dɨʃˈkaɾ.ɣɐ]

• Hyphenation: des‧car‧ga

Noun

descarga f (plural descargas)

1. act of unloading

   Synonym: descarregamento

2. (electricity, electronics) discharge

   Synonyms: descargo, desencargo

3. (law) release from obligation or encumbrance

   Synonym: quitação

4. (military) volley
5. canceling of an item or registration

   Synonym: baixo

6. (Brazil) flush (automatic cleansing of a toilet)

   Synonym: (Portugal) autoclismo

7. (medicine) evacuation, purging

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /desˈkaɾɡa/ [d̪esˈkaɾ.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɾɡa
• Syllabification: des‧car‧ga

Etymology 1

Deverbal from descargar.

Noun

descarga f (plural descargas)

1. unloading
2. discharge
3. electrical shock
4. download
5. flush (toilet)
6. jam session
7. volley, fusillade

Antonyms

• cargar

Related terms

• descargar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

descarga

1. inflection of descargar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “descarga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10