different between gamba vs amba

English

Etymology 1

From viola da gamba, ultimately from Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of jamb and gam.

Noun

gamba (plural gambas)

1. (music) Abbreviation of viola da gamba.
2. (music) A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba.

Etymology 2

Latin gamba (“leg”); compare gamb, gambol.

Noun

gamba

1. (anatomy) The metacarpus or metatarsus of ruminants, etc.

Related terms

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??am.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /??am.ba/
• Hyphenation: gam?ba

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian gamba. Doublet of cama.

Noun

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. leg

   Synonym: cama

Etymology 2

From Late Latin gamb?rus, from camm?rus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kámmaros, “lobster”).

Noun

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. shrimp

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m.ba?/
• Hyphenation: gam?ba
• Rhymes: -?mba?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian viola da gamba, from gamba (“leg”).

Noun

gamba f (plural gamba's, diminutive gambaatje n)

1. viola da gamba

   Synonym: knieviool

Derived terms

• gambist

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Catalan gamba, Portuguese gamba or French gamba.

Noun

gamba f (plural gamba's, diminutive gambaatje n)

1. scampi, prawn

French

Etymology

Spanish gamba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.ba/

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. large prawn

Gooniyandi

Noun

gamba

1. water

2. wet season
3. year (because years are measured from one wet season to the next)

References

• William B. McGregor, A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi (1990, ?ISBN, page 260

Interlingua

Noun

gamba (plural gambas)

1. leg

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gamba m (genitive singular gamba, nominative plural gambaí)

1. lump, hunk, dollop

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "gamba" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “gamba” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “gamba” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??am.ba/

Noun

gamba f (plural gambe)

1. leg
2. leg (from knee to ankle), shank
3. leg (of furniture)
4. stroke (of a letter)

Derived terms

• gambetto
• in gamba

Descendants

• ? English: gam

Related terms

See also

• coscia

Further reading

• gamba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Alternative forms

• camba

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??am.ba/, [??ämbä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??am.ba/, [???mb?]

Noun

gamba f (genitive gambae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, of animals) hock, shank
2. (Medieval Latin) (upper part of) leg, thigh

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: gamba
• English: gamb, gamba
• Old French: jambe, gambe
  • Middle French: jambe, gambe
    • ? Middle English: gambe
      • English: gamb
    • ? Middle English: jambe
      • English: jamb
    • French: jambe
  • Norman: gambe
  • Picard: gambe
  • Walloon: djambe
• Romanian: gamb?
• Sicilian: jamma
• Spanish: gamba

References

• gamba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gamba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gamba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 703/1

Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. leg

References

• AEDLL

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian gamba or Vulgar Latin *gambarus, from Latin cammarus, gammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kámmaros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????b?/
• Hyphenation: gam?ba

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. shrimp (decapod crustacean)

   Synonym: camarão

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??amba/

Noun

gamba f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gamb?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??amba/, [??ãm.ba]

Etymology 1

From Italian gamba or Vulgar Latin *gambarus, from Latin gammarus, cammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kámmaros).

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. (Spain) shrimp

   Synonym: camarón (Latin America)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Italian gamba, from Late Latin gamba.

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. (Argentina, colloquial) leg

   Synonym: pierna

2. (Chile, colloquial) 100 pesos

Derived terms

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

gamba (ma class, plural magamba)

1. bark (of a tree)
2. skin (of a scaly animal)
3. scale (of an animal)
4. armor
5. shell

See also

• ngozi

English

Etymology 1

Amharic ??? (?ämba)

Noun

amba (plural ambas)

1. A characteristic landform in Ethiopia: a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of a settlement.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ???????? (?amba) and Hebrew ?????; ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (?mra).

Noun

amba (uncountable)

1. A tangy mango pickle used as a condiment in the Middle East.

Anagrams

• AABM, AMAB, BAAM, BMAA, Bama, MAAB, bama

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am.ba?/

Noun

amba

1. lowing or mooing sound of cattle

Verb

amba

1. to moo, low as of cattle

Synonyms

• inga

Hiligaynon

Verb

ámba

1. chant, sing

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ampa/

  Rhymes: -ampa

Noun

amba f (genitive singular ömbu, nominative plural ömbur)

1. Alternative form of amaba

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am.ba/
• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: àm?ba

Etymology 1

From Amharic ??? (?ämba).

Noun

amba f (plural ambe)

1. (geology) A characteristic landform in Ethiopia, consisting of a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain.

Etymology 2

Noun

amba f (plural ambe)

1. (chiefly in the plural) circumlocution, periphrasis

   Synonyms: (formal) circonlocuzione, (colloquial) giro di parole, perifrasi

References

• amba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• amba in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti

Kanufi

Noun

amba

1. plural of uwa

References

• Roger Blench, The Anib (=Kanufi) language of Central Nigeria and its affinities, page 3, 2011

Kikuyu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bàmba (“to stretch and peg a hide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ba/

Verb

amba (infinitive kwamba)

1. to peg (out), to pitch
2. to stretch out
3. to do first

Derived terms

• kwambata

• mwambato 3

• kwamb?r?ria

• k?amb?r?ria 7
• mwamb?r?rio 3

• rwambo 11

• rwambo r?mwe r?tiambaga ndarwa

References

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
• “amba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 7. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit ???? (?mra).

Noun

amba m

1. the mango tree, Magifera indica

Declension

Noun

amba n

1. the mango fruit

Declension

Related terms

• ambaphala (“mango fruit”)

References

• “amba”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Etymology 2

Noun

amba

1. vocative singular of amb? (“mummy”)

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

amba-

1. which; who (relative pronoun)

Inflection

Verb

-amba (infinitive kwamba)

1. to say, to explain

Conjugation

Derived terms

• chambo
• jambo

Venda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Verb

amba

1. to speak

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Verb

-amba

1. to be sarcastic

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “amba”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “amba (6.6-3)”