different between samba vs anapestic

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

Alternative forms

• anapaestic (UK)
• anapestick (obsolete)

Etymology

anapest +? -ic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.n?.?pi?.st?k/

Adjective

anapestic (comparative more anapestic, superlative most anapestic)

1. of, or relating to, or composed of an anapest.
2. of, or relating to, one of the distinct beats in a (human?) heartbeat pattern.
3. of, or relating to, a rhythmic pattern used in certain forms of poetry (see also limeric or limerick).
4. of, or relating to, certain beats in specific types of drum rhythms, e.g. specific beats within the part played by the "surdo" drum. Surdo literally means "deaf" in Brasilian Portuguese, and the surdo drums play the bass parts in a samba rhythm as performed by a batucada (drumming ensemble) during the Carnaval celebration.

Translations

Noun

anapestic (plural anapestics)

1. A verse that contains anapestic feet

Anagrams

• Capetians, antapices, anti-space, antispace, captaines

Romanian

Etymology

From French anapestique, from Latin anapaesticus.

Adjective

anapestic m or n (feminine singular anapestic?, masculine plural anapestici, feminine and neuter plural anapestice)

1. anapestic

Declension