rumba

Borrowed from Spanish rumba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʊmbə/, /ˈɹʌmbə/

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rumba (plural rumbas)

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

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

1. To dance the rumba.

• Burma, umbra

Borrowed from Spanish rumba.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈrum.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈrum.ba]

rumba f (plural rumbes)

1. rumba (dance)

• “rumba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

rumba f

1. rumba

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• rumba in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• rumba in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Spanish rumba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrum.baː/

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• Hyphenation: rum‧ba

rumba f (plural rumba's, diminutive rumbaatje n)

1. rumba

From Spanish rumba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrumbɑ/, [ˈrumbɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -umbɑ
• Syllabification^(key): rum‧ba

rumba

1. rumba (dance)
2. (figurative) fuss

• “rumba”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Burma, burma, umbra

Borrowed from Spanish, from rumbo (“route”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁum.ba/

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rumba f (plural rumbas)

1. rumba (dance)

• “rumba”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bruma

• IPA^(key): [ˈrumbɒ]
• Hyphenation: rum‧ba
• Rhymes: -bɒ

Borrowed from Spanish rumba.[1]

rumba (plural rumbák)

1. rumba (dance)

rum +‎ -ba

rumba

1. illative singular of rum

   Jeget tesznek a rumba. ― They put ice in the rum.

From English rumba, from Cuban Spanish.

rumba m (genitive singular rumba, nominative plural rumbaí)

1. rumba

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rumba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “rumba” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “rumba” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrum.ba/
• Rhymes: -umba
• Hyphenation: rùm‧ba

rumba f (plural rumbe)

1. rumba

• bruma, umbra

Borrowed from Spanish rumba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrum.ba/
• Rhymes: -umba
• Syllabification: rum‧ba

rumba f

1. rumba

• rumba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rumba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Cuban Spanish, from 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrumba/ [ˈrũm.ba]
• Rhymes: -umba
• Syllabification: rum‧ba

rumba f (plural rumbas)

1. (Caribbean, Venezuela, Colombia) party
2. rumba (Cuban dance)

• → English: rumba
• → German: Rumba

• “rumba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English rumba.

rumba (n class, plural rumba)

1. rumba

   rumba ya Congo ― Congolese rumba

   • 2021 December 15, “Rumba ya Congo yashinda hadhi ya kulindwa na UNESCO”, in BBC News Swahili‎:

     Moja ya aina ya muziki na dansi yenye ushawishi mkubwa zaidi ya Kiafrika, rumba ya Congo, sasa ina hadhi ya kulindwa na Unesco.

     One of the most influential African music and dance forms, the Congolese rumba, now has UNESCO protected status.

rumba c

1. rumba

• rumba in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rumba in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rumba in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from Spanish rumba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾumba/, [ˈɾum.bɐ]
• Hyphenation: rum‧ba

rumba (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜋ᜔ᜊ)

1. rumba (Cuban dance and music)