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Spanish
Etymology
Perhaps from Kongo kúmba (“to make noise”); compare cumbancha (“fiesta, merrymaking”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kumˈbe/
- Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: cum‧bé
Noun
cumbé m (plural cumbés)
- a type of dance originating in Equatorial Guinea
- the music that accompanies this dance
Further reading
- “cumbé”, 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
- “bachata”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.