cumbia

English

Etymology

From Colombian and Panamanian Spanish cumbia.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkumbja/

Noun

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

Further reading

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cumbia.

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

Noun

cumbia inan

  1. cumbia

Declension
Declension of cumbia (inanimate, singular only, ending in -a)
indefinite singular
absolutive cumbia cumbia
ergative — cumbiak
dative — cumbiari
genitive — cumbiaren
comitative — cumbiarekin
causative — cumbiarengatik
benefactive — cumbiarentzat
instrumental cumbiaz cumbiaz
inessive — cumbian
locative — —
allative — —
terminative — —
directive — —
destinative — —
ablative — —
partitive cumbiarik —
prolative cumbiatzat —

Further reading
  • "cumbia" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Spanish

Etymology

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

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

Noun

cumbia f (plural cumbias)

  1. (music) cumbia

Derived terms

Further reading
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