samba
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɑmbə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɑmbə
Noun edit
samba (countable and uncountable, plural sambas)
- A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
- A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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Verb edit
samba (third-person singular simple present sambas, present participle sambaing, simple past and past participle sambaed)
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
Aklanon edit
Etymology edit
Akin to Malay sembah and Tagalog simba.
Verb edit
samba
- to worship
Bikol Central edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sambá (Basahan spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜊ)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese samba.
Noun edit
samba f
- samba (dance)
Declension edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading edit
Estonian edit
Noun edit
samba
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese samba.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
samba
Declension edit
Inflection of samba (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | samba | sambat | ||
genitive | samban | sambojen | ||
partitive | sambaa | samboja | ||
illative | sambaan | samboihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | samba | sambat | ||
accusative | nom. | samba | sambat | |
gen. | samban | |||
genitive | samban | sambojen sambainrare | ||
partitive | sambaa | samboja | ||
inessive | sambassa | samboissa | ||
elative | sambasta | samboista | ||
illative | sambaan | samboihin | ||
adessive | samballa | samboilla | ||
ablative | sambalta | samboilta | ||
allative | samballe | samboille | ||
essive | sambana | samboina | ||
translative | sambaksi | samboiksi | ||
abessive | sambatta | samboitta | ||
instructive | — | samboin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “samba”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese samba.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
samba m (plural sambas)
- samba (dance)
Further reading edit
- “samba”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese samba.
Noun edit
samba m or f (plural sambas)
Further reading edit
- “samba” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
- “samba” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese samba.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
samba f (plural sambe)
- samba (dance)
Further reading edit
- samba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Italiot Greek edit
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Etymology edit
From Byzantine Greek *σάμβατον (*sámbaton), from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton), borrowed from Aramaic שַׁבְּתָא. Cognates include Greek Σάββατο (Sávvato).
Noun edit
samba n
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese samba.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
samba f
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃bɐ
- Hyphenation: sam‧ba
Etymology 1 edit
Probably of Bantu origin, possibly Kongo semba (“belly-bump”), name of a dance. More at Samba.
Noun edit
samba m (plural sambas)
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
samba
- inflection of sambar:
References edit
- 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 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
samba (stem -samba-)
Inflection edit
singular | plural | ||
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1st person | sesambaá | naxesambaá | |
2nd person | nesambaá | ||
3rd person | 1) | — | gisambaá |
2) | mesambaá | gosambaá | |
4th person | yesambaá | ||
reflexive | sp. | ɂedesambaá | kedesambaá |
unsp. | desambaá | ||
reciprocal | — | ɂełesambaá | |
indefinite | ɂesambaá | ||
areal | gosambaá | ||
1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular. 2) Used when the previous condition does not apply. |
References edit
- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 64
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese samba.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
samba f (plural sambas)
Further reading edit
- “samba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese samba.
Noun edit
samba c
Declension edit
Declension of samba | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | samba | samban | sambor | samborna |
Genitive | sambas | sambans | sambors | sambornas |
References edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Malay sembah, possibly from Javanese ꦱꦼꦩ꧀ꦧꦃ (sembah),[1] from Old Javanese sĕmbah, possibly from Old Khmer saṃbaḥ ~ sambaḥ; whence Khmer សំពះ (sɑmpĕəh). Doublet of simba.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sambá (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜊ)
- worship; adoration
- Synonym: pagsamba
- spiritual belief
- Synonyms: sampalataya, pananampalataya, pagsasampalataya
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English samba, from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
samba (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜊ)
- samba (music and dance)
References edit
Further reading edit
- “samba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French samba or from Brazilian Portuguese samba.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
samba (definite accusative sambayı, plural sambalar)
Further reading edit
- “samba”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “samba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük