samba

See also: Samba

Contents

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese samba.

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

Brazilian ballroom dance

• Armenian: սամբա (hy) (samba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桑巴舞 (sāngbāwǔ)

• Czech: samba f
• Finnish: samba (fi)
• French: samba (fr) f
• Georgian: სამბა (samba)
• German: Samba (de) m

• Greek: σάμπα (el) f (sámpa)
• Hungarian: szamba (hu)
• Polish: samba (pl) f
• Portuguese: samba (pt) m
• Russian: са́мба (ru) f (sámba)
• Spanish: samba (es) f
• Tagalog: samba

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

• bamas

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Czech

Noun

samba f

1. samba (dance)

Further reading

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

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Finnish

Noun

samba

1. samba

Declension

Inflection of samba (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
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
instructive		—	samboin
abessive		sambatta	samboitta
comitative		—	samboineen

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French

Etymology

From Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): sɑ̃.ba

Noun

samba m (plural sambas)

1. samba (dance)

Further reading

• “samba” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Polish

Etymology

From Portuguese samba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba/

Noun

samba f

1. samba

Declension

declension of samba

	singular	plural
nominative	samba	samby
genitive	samby	samb
dative	sambie	sambom
accusative	sambę	samby
instrumental	sambą	sambami
locative	sambie	sambach
vocative	sambo	samby

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

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Spanish

Noun

samba f (plural sambas)

1. samba

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Swedish

Noun

samba c

1. samba

Declension

Declension of samba
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	samba	samban	sambor	samborna
Genitive	sambas	sambans	sambors	sambornas

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Tagalog

Verb

samba

1. worship