cumbé

Spanish

Etymology

Perhaps from Kongo kúmba (“to make noise”); compare cumbancha (“fiesta, merrymaking”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kumˈbe/ [kũmˈbe]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: cum‧bé

Noun

cumbé m (plural cumbés)

1. a type of dance originating in Equatorial Guinea
2. the music that accompanies this dance

Further reading

• “cumbé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• “bachata”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.