cabaret

See also: Cabaret

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der.

Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmáratider.

Proto-Iranian *kamarāder.

Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára)bor.

Latin camerader.

Old Northern French cambereteder.

Old French cambre

Picard Old French camberetder.

Middle Dutch cambretder.

Middle French cabaret

French cabaretbor.

English cabaret

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæbəˈɹeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ret

Noun

cabaret (countable and uncountable, plural cabarets)

1. Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.
2. The nightclub or restaurant where such entertainment is held.
3. (Philippines) A strip club.

Derived terms

• cabaretist
• cabaretistic
• dark cabaret

Translations

live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub

• Albanian: kabare (sq) f
• Arabic: كَبَارِيه m (kabārēh)
• Armenian: կաբարե (hy) (kabare)
• Asturian: cabaré m
• Azerbaijani: kabare
• Belarusian: кабарэ́ n (kabaré)
• Bulgarian: кабаре́ n (kabaré)
• Catalan: cabaret (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡巴萊 / 卡巴莱 (zh) (kǎbālái)

• Czech: kabaret (cs) m
• Danish: kabaret c
• Dutch: cabaret (nl) n
• Esperanto: kabareto, kabaredo
• Estonian: kabaree (et)
• Finnish: kabaree (fi)
• French: cabaret (fr) m
• Galician: cabaré m
• Georgian: კაბარე (ḳabare)
• German: Kabarett (de) n, (Austria, also) Cabaret (de) n
• Greek: καμπαρέ (el) n (kamparé)
• Hebrew: קַבָּרֶט m (kabaré)
• Hindi: काबरे (kābre)
• Hungarian: kabaré (hu)
• Ido: kabareto (io)
• Indonesian: kabaret (id)
• Italian: cabaret (it) m, varietà (it) m
• Japanese: キャバレー (ja) (kyabarē)
• Kazakh: кабаре (kk) (kabare)
• Korean: 카바레 (ko) (kabare)
• Kyrgyz: кабаре (ky) (kabare)
• Latvian: kabarē
• Lithuanian: kabaretas m
• Macedonian: кабаре n (kabare)
• Malay: kabaret (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: кабаре (kabare), кабарэ (mn) (kabare)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kabaret, cabaret

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کابارِه (kâbâre)

• Polish: kabaret (pl) m
• Portuguese: cabaré (pt) m, cabaret (pt) m
• Romanian: cabaret (ro) n
• Russian: кабаре́ (ru) n (kabarɛ́)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: каба̀рет m, кабаре n

  Latin: kabàret (sh) m, kabare (sh) n

• Slovak: kabaret m
• Slovene: kabarét m
• Spanish: cabaré (es) m, cabaret (es) m
• Swedish: kabaré (sv) c
• Tajik: кабаре (kabare)
• Thai: คาบาเร่ต์ (kaa-baa-rêe)
• Turkish: kabare (tr)
• Turkmen: kabare
• Ukrainian: кабаре́ (uk) n (kabaré)
• Uzbek: kabare (uz)
• Yiddish: קאַבאַרע m (kabare)

Further reading

• “cabaret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “cabaret”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “cabaret”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• abacter, abreact, bear cat, bearcat, bractea, cat bear

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaː.baːˈrɛt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ret
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

cabaret n (plural cabarets, no diminutive)

1. cabaret, type of live entertainment
2. comedy, live performance of jokes and satire

Derived terms

• cabaretachtig
• cabaretduo
• cabaretesk
• cabaretfestival
• cabaretgezelschap
• cabaretgroep
• cabaretier
• cabaretière
• cabaretlied
• cabaretprogramma
• cabaretshow
• cabaretsketch
• cabarettekst
• cabarettrio

Related terms

• cabaretier

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der.

Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmáratider.

Proto-Iranian *kamarāder.

Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára)bor.

Latin camerader.

Old Northern French cambereteder.

Old French cambre

Picard Old French camberetder.

Middle Dutch cambretder.

Middle French cabaret

French cabaret

Inherited from Middle French cabaret, from Middle Dutch cambret, from Old Northern French camberete and Picard Old French camberet (“little room”), diminutive of cambre (“chamber”) (modern chambre), all from Latin camera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ba.ʁɛ/

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Noun

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

1. pub, tavern
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     De temps à autre, le cocher sur son siège jetait aux cabarets des regards désespérés.

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2. cabaret (restaurant or nightclub with live entertainment)
3. (Quebec, Louisiana) tray (object on which things are carried)

   Synonym: plateau

4. (obsolete) asarabacca
   • 1869, Eugene Soubeiran, Traite de Pharmacie Theorique et Pratique, page 602:

     La racine du Cabaret [...] est vomitive, et, d'après le témoignage de Cullen, de Coste et Willemet, et de Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, elle peut remplacer l'ipecacuanha comme vomitif, à la dose de 1 à 2 grammes.

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   • 1896, Adolphe Marie Gubler, Commentaires Therapeutiques du Codex Medicamentarius, page 29:

     Le Cabaret est une plante indigène dont la racine, très active, renferme une huile volatile concrète , une huile grasse très âcre, un substance jaune nauséeuse, contenant peut-être son principe actif, et diverses autres substances peu importantes

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Derived terms

• cabaret des oiseaux

Descendants

• → Dutch: cabaret
• → English: cabaret
• → German: Kabarett (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: cabaret
• → Portuguese: cabaré, cabaret (unadapted form)
• → Spanish: cabaré

Further reading

• “cabaret” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise, 4th Edition (1762).
• “cabaret” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “cabaret” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-2024).
• “cabaret”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “cabaret”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “cabaret” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “cabaret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Paronyms

• Gabarret

Italian

Alternative forms

• cabarè (only in the regional meaning of “tray”)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French cabaret. Compare Sicilian tabbarè.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.baˈrɛ/^**, /ka.baˈre/^**
• Rhymes: -ɛ, -e
• Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ret

Noun

cabaret m (invariable)

1. cabaret (nightclub)
2. (uncountable) cabaret (live entertainment)
3. (regional) tray, platter

   Synonym: vassoio

Derived terms

• cabarettista
• cabarettistico

Further reading

• “cabaret”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• barcate, batrace, cabrate

Portuguese

Noun

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

1. alternative spelling of cabaré

Further reading

• “cabaret”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Noun

cabaret n (plural cabarete)

1. cabaret

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cabaret	cabaretul	cabarete	cabaretele
genitive-dative	cabaret	cabaretului	cabarete	cabaretelor
vocative	cabaretule		cabaretelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kabaˈɾet/ [ka.β̞aˈɾet̪]
  • Rhymes: -et
• IPA^(key): /kabaˈɾe/ [ka.β̞aˈɾe]
  • Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ca‧ba‧ret

Noun

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

1. alternative form of cabaré

Further reading

• “cabaret”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025