cumbia

From Colombian and Panamanian Spanish cumbia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumbja/

cumbia (usually uncountable, plural cumbias)

1. (music) A traditional style of Colombian dance and music, or a piece in this style.
   • 2007 April 23, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     There’s […] an accordion- and brass-pumped Colombian cumbia for “Cumbia de Los Aburridos” (“Cumbia of the Bored”).

• cumbia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Spanish cumbia.

• IPA^(key): /kumbia/ [kũm.bi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia, -a
• Hyphenation: cum‧bi‧a

cumbia inan

1. cumbia

• “cumbia”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Of African, probably Bantu, origin. Akin to Cuban Spanish cumbé (“Afro-Caribbean dance”); see cumbancha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumbja/ [ˈkũm.bja]
• Rhymes: -umbja
• Syllabification: cum‧bia

cumbia f (plural cumbias)

1. (music) cumbia

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