different between samba vs mamba

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

From Zulu imamba.

Noun

mamba (plural mambas)

1. Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.

Derived terms

• black mamba
• green mamba

Translations

Further reading

• mamba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dendroaspis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• bamma

Chichewa

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.?ba/

Noun

mamba 6

1. scale(s) (of a fish or snake)

Etymology 2

Cognate to Zulu imamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?má.?ba/

Noun

mámba 9 (plural mámba 10)

1. spitting cobra

Czech

Noun

mamba f

1. mamba

Further reading

• mamba in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• mamba in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English mamba or Afrikaans mamba, from Zulu imamba or Swazi mamba.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mamba m (plural mamba's)

1. A mamba, venomous snake of the genus Dendroaspis.

Derived terms

• groene mamba
• zwarte mamba

Finnish

Noun

mamba

1. mamba

Declension

Compounds

• jamesoninmamba
• mustamamba
• vihermamba

French

Noun

mamba m (plural mambas)

1. mamba

Derived terms

• mamba noir

Polish

Etymology

From English mamba, from Zulu imamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mam.ba/

Noun

mamba f

1. mamba (venomous snake)

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

mamba f (plural mambas)

1. mamba (venomous snake of the genus Dendroaspis)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mamba/, [?mãm.ba]

Noun

mamba f (plural mambas)

1. mamba

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

mamba (n class, plural mamba)

1. crocodile (reptile)

Synonyms

• ngwena (dialectal)

Swazi

Etymology

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Noun

mamba 1a (plural bómamba 2a)

1. mamba snake

Inflection

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