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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?mb?/

Noun

samba (countable and uncountable, plural sambas)

1. A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
2. A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.

Derived terms

• samba whistle

Translations

Verb

samba (third-person singular simple present sambas, present participle sambaing, simple past and past participle sambaed)

1. To dance the samba.

Further reading

• samba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ambas, bamas

Czech

Etymology

From Portuguese samba.

Noun

samba f

1. samba (dance)

Further reading

• samba in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• samba in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Estonian

Noun

samba

1. genitive singular of sammas

Finnish

Etymology

From Portuguese samba.

Noun

samba

1. samba

Declension

French

Etymology

From Portuguese samba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.ba/

Noun

samba m (plural sambas)

1. samba (dance)

Further reading

• “samba” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese samba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sam.ba/
• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: sàm?ba

Noun

samba f (plural sambe)

1. samba (dance)

References

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

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek *???????? (*sámbaton), from Ancient Greek ???????? (sábbaton), borrowed from Aramaic ???????????. Cognates include Greek ??????? (Sávvato).

Noun

samba n

1. Saturday

Polish

Etymology

From Portuguese samba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sam.ba/

Noun

samba f

1. samba

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Probably of Bantu origin, possibly Kongo semba (“belly-bump”), name of a dance. More at Samba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??.b?/

Noun

samba m (plural sambas)

1. samba (Brazilian genre of music and dance)

Verb

samba

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of sambar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of sambar

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “samba”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

South Slavey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.?pa/

Noun

samba

1. trout

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 64

Spanish

Etymology

From Portuguese samba.

Noun

samba f (plural sambas)

1. samba

Swedish

Etymology

From Portuguese samba.

Noun

samba c

1. samba

Declension

Tagalog

Etymology

From Malay sembah, ultimately from Old Khmer sambah (compare Khmer sampeah (sampeah)).

Verb

samba

1. worship

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)”