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Cumbia is a beautiful rhythm. It's a music that has indigenous, African and European components. It's played in all of America - from Argentina to the U.S. It has mutated and been nurtured by everyone who comes across it.
Juan Campodonico

Meaning of "cumbia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CUMBIA

cumbia  [ˈkʊmbɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CUMBIA

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cumbia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CUMBIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cumbia

Cumbia

Cumbia is a music genre popular throughout Latin America. The Cumbia originated in Colombia's Caribbean coastal region and Panama, from the musical and cultural fusion of Native Colombians and Panamanians, slaves brought from Africa, and the Spanish during colonial times in the old country of Pocabuy, which is located in Colombia's Momposina Depression and in the northeast of Panama, in the ancient palenques of the Congo nation. Cumbia began as a courtship dance practiced among the African population, which was later mixed with Amerindian steps and European and African instruments and musical characteristics. Cumbia is very popular in the Andean region and the Southern Cone, and is for example more popular than the salsa in many parts of these regions.

Definition of cumbia in the English dictionary

The definition of cumbia in the dictionary is a rhythmic style of music originating in Colombia.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CUMBIA


Arabia
əˈreɪbɪə
beer
bɪə
bier
bɪə
cambia
ˈkæmbɪə
Colombia
kəˈlɒmbɪə
Columbia
kəˈlʌmbɪə
Gambia
ˈɡæmbɪə
gambier
ˈɡæmbɪə
gambir
ˈɡæmbɪə
homophobia
ˌhəʊməʊˈfəʊbɪə
jambier
ˈdʒæmbɪə
Kabir
kəˈbɪə
Libya
ˈlɪbɪə
Namibia
nɑːˈmɪbɪə
Rabia
rəˈbɪə
Senegambia
ˌsɛnəˈɡæmbɪə
Serbia
ˈsɜːbɪə
suburbia
səˈbɜːbɪə
tibia
ˈtɪbɪə
Zambia
ˈzæmbɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CUMBIA

cumbent
cumber
cumberbund
cumberer
Cumberland
Cumberland sauce
cumberless
cumberment
Cumbernauld
cumbersome
cumbersomely
cumbersomeness
cumbrance
Cumbria
Cumbrian
Cumbrian Mountains
cumbrous
cumbrously
cumbrousness
cumbungi

WORDS THAT END LIKE CUMBIA

Abia
acrophobia
Bessarabia
British Columbia
Castellammare di Stabia
della Robbia
District of Columbia
euphorbia
hydrophobia
Islamophobia
Libia
Nubia
phobia
Picabia
Robbia
Saudi Arabia
The Gambia
urbia
xenophobia
Zenobia

Synonyms and antonyms of cumbia in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cumbia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CUMBIA

Find out the translation of cumbia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cumbia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cumbia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

CUMBIA
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cumbia
570 millions of speakers

English

cumbia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Cumbia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كومبيا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кумбия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cumbia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কাম্বিয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cumbia
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cumbia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Cumbia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

クンビア
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cumbia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cumbia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Cumbia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கம்பியா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कंबिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cumbia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cumbia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cumbia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кумбія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cumbia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cumbia
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cumbia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cumbia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cumbia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cumbia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CUMBIA»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cumbia

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QUOTES WITH «CUMBIA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cumbia.
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Juan Campodonico
Cumbia is a beautiful rhythm. It's a music that has indigenous, African and European components. It's played in all of America - from Argentina to the U.S. It has mutated and been nurtured by everyone who comes across it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUMBIA»

Discover the use of cumbia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cumbia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre
The contributors to Cumbia! look at particular manifestations of cumbia through their disciplinary lenses of musicology, sociology, history, anthropology, linguistics, and literary criticism.
Héctor D. Fernández L'Hoeste, Pablo Vila, 2013
2
Oye Como Va!: Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music
Cumbia remains deeply rooted in working-class Latin/o American communities, but its recent global variants have become unmoored from any particular social group or location. Cumbia's extraordinary northward journeys from Colombia to ...
Deborah Pacini Hernandez, 2010
3
Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic ...
EMBLEMATIC OF COLOMBIA'S once marginalized costeno culture, cumbia is the expressive form through which a suppressed African legacy claimed legitimacy in the construction of the idea of a tri-cultural nation and also asserted it on a ...
Kuss, Malena
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Colombian Styles of Dance: Cumbia, Kumbia Kings, Mexican ...
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General Books LLC, LLC Books, 2010
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World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia ...
Colombia is one of the powerhouses of Latin music, with its highly influential national music, cumbia - one of the great Latin rhythms - and a major role in the salsa world. But its riches don't stop there. Travel around the roads (or cassette racks) ...
Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, 2000
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Music, Race, and Nation: Musica Tropical in Colombia
Cumbia The mythology surrounding cumbia, the other main style which became commercial this century, is rather vaguer, but also simpler. It is generally presented as a very old and traditional form. Specifics, however, are never presented, ...
Peter Wade, 2000
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Latin Dance
a couples dance, the Latin motion of cumbia may either be demurely subdued or saucily flaunted, depending on the mood. And when danced in a group, cumbia can look a great deal like a Western swing line dance with a Latin beat to it.
Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, 2011
8
Troubling Gender: Youth and Cumbia in Argentina's Music Scene
The songs exhibit the tensions at play in the different ways people relate to this musical genre. In Troubling Gender, noted sociologists Pablo Vila and Pablo Semán scrutinize the music's lyrics and the singers' and dancers' performances.
Pablo Vila, Pablo Semán, 2011
9
From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music
Huayno, Chicha, and Techno,cumbia in Lima RAUL R. ROMERO In the late 1990s there were two developmems that captured the public's anemion in Peru. One was the rise and fall of the corrupt Fujimori regime, a decade of concealed ...
Walter Aaron Clark, 2002
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Musica!: The Rhythm of Latin America - Salsa, Rumba, ...
In i955. during the Baranquilla carnival. the trumpeter Pacho lFranciscol Galan concocted a crush made from merengue and cumbia called 'El Mere. cumbe'. His theme tune. 'Ay. cosita lindal' lHey. What a Gorgeous Little Thingil. was a ...
Sue Steward, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUMBIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cumbia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Totó La Momposina - "La Candela Viva" (video) (premiere)
The Queen of Cumbia, Totó La Momposina made waves worldwide when Peter Gabriel released her album La Candela Viva in the early '90s ... «PopMatters, Jul 15»
2
L'Orchestre du Mont-Plaisant gearing up for west Dorset show
... who play blues and dance pieces, with notable influences from Congolese Soukous, African highlife, Ethiopian jazz, cumbia and a whiff of Middle-Eastern and ... «Dorset Echo, Jul 15»
3
Peruvians Love Their Chicha Street Art. The Government ... Not So …
It sprang from Cumbia, a "catchy" dance music that started out in Colombia. Peruvians added local rhythms, instruments, melodies and dance ... «GPB, Jul 15»
4
Soundbites: Inner Fire Disctrict Return: Previewing Upcoming VT …
In addition to Symons, IFD featured some top-notch local talent including guitarist Tim Lang, currently of cumbia outfit Mal Maiz, upright bassist ... «Seven Days, Jul 15»
5
Devendra Banhart's amazing “Mad Men” finale theory involves …
There is something more to the music that I'm hearing constantly in Caracas, which is music I love now, salsa, merengue, cumbia. All this shit ... «Salon, Jul 15»
6
The Dolomites - "Wakannai" (video) (premiere)
It's fair to say that a band that combines Japanese, Balkan, cumbia, gypsy, dub, tribal, roots, and 8-bit music will probably sound just a little bit ... «PopMatters, Jul 15»
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Countrywide events
LATIN MUSIC/CRUISE: Hudba na Dunaji/ Music on the Danube – This time, the “musical ship” offers on its cruise Latin music by Inca Cumbia. «The Slovak Spectator, Jul 15»
8
K. Sabroso, international
We were both booked to spin for Cumbia Sazo a monthly electronic Latin music party at Chicago's Double Door. I caught up with Sandoval ... «NUVO Newsweekly, Jul 15»
9
Santa Barbara's First Ever Argentine Festival
The yerba mate will steadily flow and cumbia music proudly bump this Saturday, July 11, at Plaza Del Mar on Cabrillo Boulevard from 11 a.m.-6 ... «Santa Barbara Independent, Jul 15»
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The Raiders of Ruta 7
It's being awakened from a nap in the middle of a eucalyptus grove dotted with cow excrement by the sound of racehorse hooves and cumbia blaring full blast ... «Roads and Kingdoms, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cumbia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cumbia>. May 2024 ».
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