cumbé
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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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “bachata”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.