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gamba
English
Etymology 1
From viola da gamba, ultimately from Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of jamb and gam.
Noun
gamba (plural gambas)
- (music) Abbreviation of viola da gamba.
- (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
- (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)
- leg
- Synonym: cama
Etymology 2
From Late Latin gamb?rus, from camm?rus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kámmaros, “lobster”).
Noun
gamba f (plural gambes)
- 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)
- 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)
- scampi, prawn
French
Etymology
Spanish gamba
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.ba/
Noun
gamba f (plural gambas)
- large prawn
Gooniyandi
Noun
gamba
- water
- wet season
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- leg
- leg (from knee to ankle), shank
- leg (of furniture)
- 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
- (Late Latin, of animals) hock, shank
- (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
- ? Middle English: gambe
- Norman: gambe
- Picard: gambe
- Walloon: djambe
- Middle French: jambe, gambe
- 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)
- 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)
- shrimp (decapod crustacean)
- Synonym: camarão
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??amba/
Noun
gamba f
- 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)
- (Spain) shrimp
- Synonym: camarón (Latin America)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Italian gamba, from Late Latin gamba.
Noun
gamba f (plural gambas)
- (Argentina, colloquial) leg
- Synonym: pierna
- (Chile, colloquial) 100 pesos
Derived terms
Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
gamba (ma class, plural magamba)
- bark (of a tree)
- skin (of a scaly animal)
- scale (of an animal)
- armor
- shell
See also
- ngozi
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gabba
English
Noun
gabba (countable and uncountable, plural gabbas)
- (music) Alternative spelling of gabber
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse gabba.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ap?a
Verb
gabba (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gabbaði, supine gabbað)
- to befool
Conjugation
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ab.ba/
- Rhymes: -abba
- Hyphenation: gàb?ba
Etymology 1
Variant forms.
Noun
gabba f (plural gabbe)
- Alternative form of gabbo
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
gabba
- third-person singular present indicative of gabbare
- second-person singular imperative of gabbare
Northern Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *këmpë.
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?kab?ba/
Noun
gabba
- white reindeer
Inflection
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gappon-, *gabb?n- (“to joke”), probably related to *gap?n (“to gape”). See Dutch gapen (“to gape”).
Verb
gabba
- (transitive) to mock, to make game of
Related terms
- gabb
Descendants
- Icelandic: gabba
- ? Old French: gaber
- Middle French: gaber
- French: gaber
- Middle French: gaber
References
- gabba in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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