cumbia
English edit
Etymology edit
From Colombian and Panamanian Spanish cumbia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cumbia (usually uncountable, plural cumbias)
- (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”).
Further reading edit
Basque edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cumbia inan
Declension edit
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 edit
- "cumbia" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Of African, probably Bantu, origin. Akin to Cuban Spanish cumbé (“Afro-Caribbean dance”); see cumbancha.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cumbia f (plural cumbias)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cumbia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014