criolla

English

Noun

criolla (uncountable)

1. A genre of Cuban music.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾjoʝa/ [ˈkɾjo.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾjoʝa/ [ˈkɾjo.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾjoʎa/ [ˈkɾjo.ʎa] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾjoʃa/ [ˈkɾjo.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾjoʒa/ [ˈkɾjo.ʒa] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾjoja/ [ˈkɾjo.ja] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

 

• Rhymes: -oʝa

• Rhymes: -oʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -oʎa (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -oʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -oʒa (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• Rhymes: -oja (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• 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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025