samba

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑmbə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑmbə

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.

• samba whistle

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

1. To dance the samba.

• samba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ambas, bamas

Akin to Malay sembah and Tagalog simba.

samba

1. to worship

• Hyphenation: sam‧ba
• IPA^(key): /samˈba/

samba

1. worship

From Portuguese samba.

samba f

1. samba (dance)

• samba in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• samba in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

samba

1. genitive singular of sammas

From Portuguese samba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑmbɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑmbɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑmbɑ
• Syllabification^(key): sam‧ba

samba

1. samba

From Portuguese samba.

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.ba/

samba m (plural sambas)

1. samba (dance)

• “samba”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Portuguese samba.

samba m or f (plural sambas)

1. samba

• “samba” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “samba” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Portuguese samba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba/
• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: sàm‧ba

samba f (plural sambe)

1. samba (dance)

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

From Byzantine Greek *σάμβατον (*sámbaton), from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton), borrowed from Aramaic שַׁבְּתָא‎‎. Cognates include Greek Σάββατο (Sávvato).

samba n

1. Saturday

Borrowed from Portuguese samba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba/

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• Rhymes: -amba
• Syllabification: sam‧ba

samba f

1. samba

• samba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• samba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃bɐ
• Hyphenation: sam‧ba

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

samba m (plural sambas)

1. samba (Brazilian genre of music and dance)
   • 1963, “Mas Que Nada”, in Samba Esquema Novo, performed by Jorge Ben:

     Eu quero passar / Pois o samba está animado / O que eu quero é sambar.

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samba

1. inflection of sambar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /sa.ᵐpa/

samba

1. trout

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

From Portuguese samba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsamba/ [ˈsãm.ba]
• Rhymes: -amba
• Syllabification: sam‧ba

samba f (plural sambas)

1. samba

• “samba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Portuguese samba.

samba c

1. samba

Borrowed from Malay sembah, possibly from Javanese sembah[1], from Old Javanese sĕmbah, possibly from Old Khmer saṃbaḥ ~ sambaḥ; whence Khmer សំពះ (sɑmpĕəh). Doublet of simba.

• Hyphenation: sam‧ba
• IPA^(key): /samˈba/, [sɐmˈba]

sambá

1. worship; adoration

   Synonym: pagsamba

2. spiritual belief

   Synonyms: sampalataya, pananampalataya, pagsasampalataya

Borrowed from English samba, from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language.

• Hyphenation: sam‧ba
• IPA^(key): /ˈsamba/, [ˈsam.bɐ]

samba

1. samba (music and dance)

Borrowed from French samba or from Brazilian Portuguese samba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba/
• Hyphenation: sam‧ba

samba (definite accusative sambayı, plural sambalar)

1. samba

• samba in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “samba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük