cumbia

From Spanish cumbia

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumbja/

cumbia (usually uncountable, plural cumbias)

1. A traditional style of Colombian dance and music, or a piece in this style
   • 2007 April 23, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times‎:

     There’s […] an accordion- and brass-pumped Colombian cumbia for “Cumbia de Los Aburridos” (“Cumbia of the Bored”).

Of African, probably Bantu, origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumbja/

cumbia f (plural cumbias)

1. A style of dance and music which originated in Colombia's Caribbean coastal region and Panama and is popular throughout Latin America, or a piece in this style