machamba

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Swahili mashamba (“farms, plots of land”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation edit

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈʃɐ̃.bɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈʃɐ̃.ba/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈʃɐ̃.bɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈt͡ʃɐ̃.bɐ/

Hyphenation: ma‧cham‧ba

Noun edit

machamba f (plural machambas)

(Mozambique) shamba (plot of cultivated land)

References edit

^ “machamba” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
^ “machamba” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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