tumbao

From Cuban Spanish tumbar (“to knock off, fall”).

tumbao (plural tumbaos)

1. (music) The basic rhythm played on the conga drum and the bass in Afro-Cuban music.
   • 2007 February 12, Nate Chinen, “A Flamenco Master Is His Own Ensemble”, in New York Times‎:

     After all, its encore introduced some new musical elements, including a pulse faintly suggestive of an Afro-Cuban tumbao.

• Batoum, tambou

tumbao m (uncountable)

1. tumbao