rumba

English

Wikipedia

Noun

rumba (countable and uncountable; plural rumbas)

1. a slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time

Translations

dance

• Armenian: ռումբա (hy) (ṙumba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倫巴舞 (cmn), 伦巴舞 (cmn) (lúnbāwǔ)

• Finnish: rumba (fi)
• French: rumba (fr) f

• German: Rumba (de) m and f
• Japanese: ルンバ (ja) (runba)
• Norwegian: rumba (no)
• Russian: румба (ru) (rúmba) f
• Swedish: rumba (sv) c

Verb

rumba (third-person singular simple present rumbas, present participle rumbaing, simple past and past participle rumbaed)

1. To dance the rumba.

Translations

to dance rumba

• Finnish: rumbata (fi)

• German: Rumba tanzen (de)

Anagrams

• Burma, umbra

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Finnish

Noun

rumba

1. rumba (dance)

Declension

Declension of rumba (type koira) singular plural nominative rumba rumbat genitive rumban rumbien rumbain1 partitive rumbaa rumbia accusative rumba rumban rumbat inessive rumbassa rumbissa elative rumbasta rumbista illative rumbaan rumbiin adessive rumballa rumbilla ablative rumbalta rumbilta allative rumballe rumbille essive rumbana rumbina translative rumbaksi rumbiksi instructive – rumbin abessive rumbatta rumbitta comitative – rumbineen 1) Rare.

Anagrams

• Burma

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French

Etymology

From Spanish, from rumbo (“route”)

Noun

rumba f (plural rumbas)

1. rumba (dance)

Anagrams

• bruma

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Hungarian

Etymology

rum + -ba

Noun

rumba

1. illative singular of rum

   a rumba - into the rum

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Italian

Noun

rumba f (plural rumbe)

1. rumba

Anagrams

• bruma, umbra

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Spanish

Etymology

Cuban Spanish, From Spanish rumbo (“spree, party”), meaning evolved from "ostentation, pomp, leadership," perhaps originally "the course of a ship," from rombo (“rhombus”), referencing the compass, which is marked by a rhombus. See rhombus.

Noun

rumba f (plural rumbas)

1. rumba (Cuban dance)

Derived terms

• rumbear