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Etymology

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From Colombian and Panamanian Spanish cumbia.

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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”).

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Basque

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Borrowed from Spanish cumbia.

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

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cumbia inan

  1. cumbia

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Spanish

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

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

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cumbia f (plural cumbias)

  1. (music) cumbia

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