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Forró (Portuguese pronunciation: [foˈʁɔ]) encompasses a number of Northeastern Brazilian dances as well as a number of different musical genres which accompany these dances. Although the music has gained widespread popularity in all of Brazil and is growing in popularity outside Brazil, the event most closely associated with Forró is the annual Festa Junina (June Festival), a part of Brazilian traditional culture which celebrates a number of Catholic saints. The most celebrated day of the festival is the day of São João.
There are several theories on the origin of the name.
"Forró" (written exactly the same) means "burning hot" in Hungarian. In the 1940s, there were thousands of Hungarian immigrants arriving to South America. This is thought to have led to the naming of this dance.[citation needed]
Another accepted[by whom?] theory puts forró as a derivative of forrobodó, meaning "great party" or "commotion". This is the view held by Brazilian folklorist Câmara Cascudo, who studied the Brazilian Northeast through most of his life.[citation needed] Forrobodó is believed[by whom?] to come from the word forbodó (itself a corruption of fauxbourdon), which was used in the Portuguese court to define a dull party.