cumbé
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from Kongo kúmba (“to make noise”); compare cumbancha (“fiesta, merrymaking”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cumbé m (plural cumbés)
- a type of dance originating in Equatorial Guinea
- the music that accompanies this dance
Further reading
[edit]- “cumbé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- “bachata”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.