kumbaya

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˌkum.baɪˈjɑ/|/ˌkum.bɑˈjɑ/|/ˈkʌm.baː.jə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Used to evoke spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony, with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm, as referring to the folk song.
    — Dr. Hoffman told me the word kumbaya was originally an African American spiritual, a song that was also a prayer asking for divine intervention, asking for help in dire times, and that then the hippies in the sixties took it and sang it to mean unity amid protest, and then it got played out and became a stand-in for corniness about togetherness.

词形变化

kum ba yah alternative kumbayah alternative Kumbaya alternative

词源

From Gullah. Apparently a corruption of the English phrase “come by here” in a spiritual song.
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