different between rumba vs beguine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rumba.

Noun

rumba (plural rumbas)

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

Translations

Verb

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

1. to dance the rumba

Translations

Anagrams

• Burma, umbra

Czech

Noun

rumba f

1. rumba

Further reading

• rumba in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• rumba in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rumba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rum.ba?/
• Hyphenation: rum?ba

Noun

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

1. rumba

Finnish

Noun

rumba

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

Declension

Anagrams

• Burma, burma, umbra

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, from rumbo (“route”)

Noun

rumba f (plural rumbas)

1. rumba (dance)

Further reading

• “rumba” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• bruma

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rumb?]
• Hyphenation: rum?ba
• Rhymes: -b?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish rumba.

Noun

rumba (plural rumbák)

1. rumba (dance)

Declension

Etymology 2

rum +? -ba

Noun

rumba

1. illative singular of rum

References

Irish

Etymology

From English rumba, from Cuban Spanish.

Noun

rumba m (genitive singular rumba, nominative plural rumbaí)

1. rumba

Declension

Further reading

• "rumba" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• 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.

Italian

Noun

rumba f (plural rumbe)

1. rumba

Anagrams

• bruma, umbra

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish rumba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rum.ba/

Noun

rumba f

1. rumba

Declension

Further reading

• rumba in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• rumba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rumba/, [?r?m.ba]

Noun

rumba f (plural rumbas)

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

Derived terms

• rumbear

Descendants

• ? English: rumba
• ? German: Rumba

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Noun

rumba

1. rumba

English

Etymology

From American French béguine, from French béguin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /be???i?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b?.??i?n/

Noun

beguine (plural beguines)

1. A ballroom dance, similar to a slow rumba, originally from French West Indies and popularized abroad largely through the song "Begin the Beguine"; the music for the dance.
   • 1935, Cole Porter, Begin the Beguine,

     When they begin the beguine, / It brings back the sound of music so tender / It brings back the night of tropical splendor, / It brings back a memory ever green.

   • 1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, 2003, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard (editors), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14: Autobiography, page 69,

     It was a haunting kind of beguine with a strange sad lyric about slavery and freedom set against insistent drums and voluptuous maracas:

   • 2003, Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora, page 174,

     He is especially fascinated by the chacha, the percussion instrument that sets the basic rolling rhythmic foundation of the beguine and propels the dancers, writing that “the tempo is set by a shiny tin container filled with pebbles. […] ?

Translations

Finnish

Noun

beguine

1. beguine (dance and music)

Declension