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gamba

See also: Gamba, gambá, gambă, and gâmba

English

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Etymology 1

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From viola da gamba, ultimately from Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of gam, gamb, jamb, and jambe.

Noun

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gamba (plural gambas)

  1. (music) Abbreviation of viola da gamba.
  2. (music) A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba.

Etymology 2

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From Latin gamba (“leg”); compare gambol. Doublet of gam, gamb, jamb, and jambe.

Noun

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gamba

  1. (anatomy) The metacarpus or metatarsus of ruminants, etc.
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Etymology 3

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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gamba (uncountable)

  1. (Twitch-speak) Gambling.

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Italian gamba. Doublet of cama.

Noun

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gamba f (plural gambes)

  1. leg
    Synonym: cama
  2. shank (any of various birds in the genus Tringa)
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Etymology 2

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From Late Latin gambărus, from cammărus, from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros, “lobster”).

Noun

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gamba f (plural gambes)

  1. shrimp

Etymology 3

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Verb

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gamba

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

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɣɑm.baː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: gam‧ba
  • Rhymes: -ɑmbaː

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Italian viola da gamba, from gamba (“leg”).

Noun

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gamba f (plural gamba's, diminutive gambaatje n)

  1. viola da gamba
    Synonym: knieviool
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Catalan gamba, Portuguese gamba or French gamba.

Noun

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gamba f (plural gamba's, diminutive gambaatje n)

  1. scampi, prawn

French

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Borrowed from Spanish gamba.

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gamba f (plural gambas)

  1. large prawn

Galician

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Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin gamba (“leg”).

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gamba f (plural gambas)

  1. leg
    Synonym: perna
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Catalan gamba (“shrimp”).

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Noun

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gamba f (plural gambas)

  1. shrimp
    Synonym: camarón

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Gooniyandi

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Noun

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gamba

  1. water
    yoowarni gamba ― one serving of water
  2. wet season
  3. year (because years are measured from one wet season to the next)
    yoowarni gamba ― one year

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  • William B. McGregor, A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi (1990, →ISBN, page 260

Interlingua

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Noun

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gamba (plural gambas)

  1. leg

Irish

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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gamba m (genitive singular gamba, nominative plural gambaí)

  1. lump, hunk, dollop

Declension

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Declension of gamba

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gamba gambaí
Vocative a ghamba a ghambaí
Genitive gamba gambaí
Dative gamba gambaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gamba na gambaí
Genitive an ghamba na ngambaí
Dative leis an ngamba

don ghamba

leis na gambaí

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gamba ghamba ngamba
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”).

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Noun

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gamba f (plural gambe, diminutive gambétta or gambìna or gambìno m, augmentative gambóna or gambóne m, pejorative gambàccia, endearing-derogatory gambùccia)

  1. leg
  2. leg (from knee to ankle), shank
  3. leg (of furniture)
  4. stroke (of a letter)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → English: gam; gamba
  • → Ido: gambo

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Further reading

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

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”).

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Noun

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gamba f (genitive gambae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin, of animals) hock, shank
  2. (Medieval Latin) (upper part of) leg, thigh

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gamba gambae
Genitive gambae gambārum
Dative gambae gambīs
Accusative gambam gambās
Ablative gambā gambīs
Vocative gamba gambae

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References

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  • “gamba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • gamba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • gamba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 703/1.

Leonese

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Etymology

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gamba f (plural gambas)

  1. leg

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Italian gamba or Vulgar Latin *gambarus, from Latin cammarus, gammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros).

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gamba f (plural gambas)

  1. shrimp (decapod crustacean)
    Synonym: camarão

Romanian

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Noun

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gamba f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gambă

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡamba/ [ˈɡãm.ba]
  • Rhymes: -amba
  • Syllabification: gam‧ba

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Italian gamba or Vulgar Latin *gambarus, from Latin gammarus, cammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros).

Noun

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gamba f (plural gambas)

  1. (Spain) shrimp
    Synonym: camarón (Latin America)
  2. (Spain, derogatory slang) butterface, prawn
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Italian gamba, from Late Latin gamba.

Noun

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gamba f (plural gambas)

  1. (Argentina, colloquial) leg
    Synonym: pierna
  2. (Chile, colloquial) 100 pesos
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Swahili

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Noun

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gamba (ma class, plural magamba)

  1. bark (of a tree)
  2. skin (of a scaly animal)
  3. scale (of an animal)
  4. armor
  5. shell

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