Standard Lemma guide

Bambara

name · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /bɑmˈbɑɹ.ə/
  • /-ɑ/
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1

name

Meaning 1

A West Sudanic language spoken mainly in Mali by as many as six million people, and by smaller numbers of people in Senegal Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Gambia.

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A member of a Mandé ethnic group native to much of West Africa.

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3

noun

Meaning 3

The Bambara groundnut, Vigna subterranea.

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History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

71 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: Bambara — language
  • Armenian: բամբարա (bambara) — language
  • Asturian: bambara — language
  • Bambara: mandenkan — language
  • Bambara: bamanankan — language
  • Basque: bambara — language
  • Breton: bambareg — language
  • Bulgarian: Бамбара — language
  • Catalan: bamana — language
  • Catalan: bamanakan — language
  • Catalan: bambara — language
  • Catalan: bamanaia — language
  • Catalan: baumana — language
  • Cherokee: ᏆᎻᏆᎳ (quamiquala) — language
  • Chinese Mandarin: 班巴拉语 — language
  • Chuvash: бамбара (bambara) — language
  • Corsican: bambara — language
  • Czech: bambarština — language
  • Danish: bambara — language
  • Dutch: Bambara — language
  • Esperanto: Bambara lingvo — language
  • Esperanto: Bambara — language
  • Estonian: bambara keel — language
  • Finnish: bambara — language
  • Finnish: bamanankan — language
  • French: bambara — language
  • Galician: bambara — language
  • German: Bambara — language
  • German: Bambara — language
  • Central Franconian: Bambara — language
  • Greek: μπαμπάρα (bampára) — language
  • Hungarian: bambara — language
  • Icelandic: bambara — language
  • Indonesian: bahasa Bambara — language
  • Irish: Bambairis — language
  • Italian: bambara — language
  • Japanese: バンバラ語 (banbara-go) — language
  • Korean: 밤바라어 (bambara'eo) — language
  • Latin: lingua Bambara — language
  • Latvian: bambaru valoda — language
  • Ligurian: bambara — language
  • Limburgish: Bambara — language
  • Lithuanian: bambarų — language
  • Low German: Bambara — language
  • Luxembourgish: Bambara — language
  • Norwegian: bambara — language
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bambara — language
  • Occitan: bambara — language
  • Polish: bambara — language
  • Polish: bamana — language
  • Portuguese: bambara — language
  • Russian: бамана (bamana) — language
  • Russian: бамбара (bambara) — language
  • Russian: бамананкан (bamanankan) — language
  • Serbo-Croatian: Бамана — language
  • Serbo-Croatian: Бамбара — language
  • Serbo-Croatian: Bamana — language
  • Serbo-Croatian: Bambara — language
  • Sicilian: bambara — language
  • Slovene: bambarščina — language
  • Spanish: bambara — language
  • Swahili: Kibambara — language
  • Swedish: bambara — language
  • Tamil: பம்பாரா மொழி (pampārā moḻi) — language
  • Turkish: Bambara — language
  • Urdu: بمبارا — language
  • Venetan: bambara — language
  • Vietnamese: tiếng Bambara — language
  • Welsh: Bambara — language
  • Finnish: bambara — person
  • Moore: bambarenga — person