cumbia
English
editEtymology
editFrom Colombian and Panamanian Spanish cumbia.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcumbia (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
editBasque
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcumbia inan
Declension
editDeclension 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
Spanish
editEtymology
editOf African, probably Bantu, origin. Akin to Cuban Spanish cumbé (“Afro-Caribbean dance”); see cumbancha.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcumbia f (plural cumbias)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cumbia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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