criolla

English

Noun

criolla (uncountable)

1. A genre of Cuban music.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾjoʝa/ [ˈkɾjo.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈkɾjoʝa/ [ˈkɾjo.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈkɾjoʎa/ [ˈkɾjo.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkɾjoʃa/ [ˈkɾjo.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkɾjoʒa/ [ˈkɾjo.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -oʝa

• Rhymes: -oʝa
• Rhymes: -oʎa
• Rhymes: -oʃa
• Rhymes: -oʒa

• Syllabification: crio‧lla

Noun

criolla f (plural criollas)

1. a style of music from Cuba, in 6/8 time

Adjective

criolla

1. feminine singular of criollo

Further reading

• “criollo”, 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