cumbia

From Colombian and Panamanian Spanish cumbia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumbja/

cumbia (usually uncountable, plural cumbias)

1. 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”).

• cumbia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

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

cumbia f (plural cumbias)

1. cumbia

• “cumbia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014