Word.ws English Dictionary

Zumba

/ˈzum.bə/

Zumba proper noun: a fitness program that combines Latin and international music with dance.

Proper noun

Zumba

  1. A fitness program that combines Latin and international music with dance.

Origin of Zumba

From trademark Zumba created by the Colombian Beto Pérez. He wanted to call it "rumba", but this name was already taken for the Cuban musical genre and could create confusion. So he and his partner began to try initial letters until they liked "sumba", but Beto Pérez decided to write it with "z" because he liked the fictional character Zorro when he was a child.

Questions about Zumba

What does Zumba mean?
Zumba means a fitness program that combines Latin and international music with dance.
What part of speech is Zumba?
Zumba is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Zumba?
Zumba is pronounced /ˈzum.bə/ (US).

Words near Zumba in the dictionary

  1. Zumarraga
  2. Zumas
  3. zumat
  4. zumatic
  5. Zumaya
  6. Zumba
  7. zumbi
  8. Zumbi Day
  9. zumbis
  10. zumbooruck
  11. zumboorucks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Zumba (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-us-Zumba.ogg.

Cite this entry: “Zumba.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/zumba. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.