name
Meaning 1
A town and district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
samba
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈsɑmbə/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɑmbə
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CMU ARPABET: S AA1 M B AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 3
A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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verb
Meaning 4
To dance the samba.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
Meaning 5
a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: canasta, basket rummy, meld
noun
Meaning 6
a lively ballroom dance from Brazil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ballroom dancing, ballroom dance
noun
Meaning 7
music composed for dancing the samba
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dance music
noun
Meaning 8
large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: obeche, obechi, arere, Triplochiton scleroxcylon
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tree
verb
Meaning 9
dance the samba
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Hindi: साम्बा (sāmbā) — the city and district of Samba
- Hindi: सांबा (sāmbā) — the city and district of Samba
- Kashmiri: سانٛبہٕ (sānbụ) — the city and district of Samba
- Punjabi: ਸਾਂਬਾ (sāmbā) — the city and district of Samba
- Punjabi: سان٘بَہ (sāṉbah) — the city and district of Samba
- Urdu: سان٘بَہ (sāmba) — the city and district of Samba
- Armenian: սամբա (samba) — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Catalan: samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Chinese Mandarin: 桑巴舞 (sāngbāwǔ) — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Chinese Mandarin: 桑巴 (sāngbā) — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Chinese Mandarin: 森巴 (sēnbā) — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Czech: samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Finnish: samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- French: samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Georgian: სამბა (samba) — Brazilian ballroom dance
- German: Samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Greek: σάμπα (sámpa) — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Hungarian: szamba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Italian: samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Japanese: サンバ (sanba) — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Polish: samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Portuguese: samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Russian: са́мба (sámba) — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Spanish: samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Swedish: samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Tagalog: samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Turkish: samba — Brazilian ballroom dance
- Portuguese: sambar — Translations
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