Guantanamera?
The title of the famous song guantanamera means?
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It is what you would call a woman from Guantánamo, Cuba
The song Guantanamera was based on a poem written by José Martí of Cuba. As Yesero said, Guantanamera refers to a woman of Guantánamo, Cuba, and is not her actual name.
The train that runs between Havana and Guantanamo is called Guantanamera as well.
If you search the forum for "guantanamera" you will find a dozen useful threads. I found this interesting. Yesterday, I found a DVD from 1995 at my local library, "Guantanamera" - an entertaining satirical story of life in Cuba, in Spanish with subtitles.
I could understand a fair amount of it. It had some obvious slang in it, but not an overwhelming amount.
It is a woman's name. It is not a word with a "meaning," so there's no way to translate it.
it is the name of the composers woman at the time
I absolutely agree with Yeser: Guantanamera, a woman from Guantánamo, Cuba. Like New Yorker is a man or a woman from New York.
Guajira se le dice en Cuba a la mujer del campo, como guajiro es llamado el campesino. Guantanamera es el gentilicio de las mujeres que han nacido en Guantánamo. Para los hombres es guantanamero. Guantánamo, fue un municipio en la provincia de Oriente, que después de 1976 convirtieron en provincia agregándole 10 municipios, es donde está una base naval de Estados Unidos. Tiene además una de las mayores bahías de Cuba.
guantanamero, ra.
1 . adj. Natural de Guantánamo. U. t. c. s.
2 . adj. Perteneciente o relativo a esta ciudad de Cuba o a su provincia.
The chorus of the song says:
Guantanamera, guajira guantanamera.
In Cuba, guajiro, guajira, is either a peasant or a folk song:
guajiro, ra.
1 . m. y f. Cuba. Persona que vive y trabaja en el campo o que procede de una zona rural.
4 . f. Canto popular cubano de tema campesino.
The original song is atributed to Joseíto Fernández, there are very interesting videos of him singing Guantanamera in YouTube.
