"rumba" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹʊmbə/, /ˈɹʌmbə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rumba.wav [Southern-England] Forms: rumbas [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish rumba. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|rumba}} Spanish rumba Head templates: {{en-noun}} rumba (plural rumbas)
  1. A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time. Categories (topical): Dances Translations (dance): ռումբա (ṙumba) (Armenian), 倫巴舞 (Chinese Mandarin), 伦巴舞 (lúnbāwǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), rumba [feminine] (Czech), rumba (Finnish), rumba [feminine] (French), Rumba [feminine, masculine] (German), rumba (Hungarian), ルンバ (runba) (Japanese), rumba (Malay), rumba (Norwegian), rumba [feminine] (Polish), ру́мба (rúmba) [feminine] (Russian), rumba (Swahili), rumba [common-gender] (Swedish), rumba (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-rumba-en-noun-iFohE8VA Disambiguation of Dances: 64 36 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 97 3

Verb

IPA: /ˈɹʊmbə/, /ˈɹʌmbə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rumba.wav [Southern-England] Forms: rumbas [present, singular, third-person], rumbaing [participle, present], rumbaed [participle, past], rumbaed [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish rumba. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|rumba}} Spanish rumba Head templates: {{en-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): rumbata (Finnish), Rumba tanzen (German), rumbázik (Hungarian), rumbear (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-rumba-en-verb-PwUJMspE

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Download JSON data for rumba meaning in English (4.7kB)

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