camba

See also: Camba

Galician
A Galician traditional ox cart

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kambos (“curved”). Cognate with Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”), Welsh cam (“crooked”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkamba̝/

Noun

camba f (plural cambas)

  1. each one of the bent pieces of the felly (in a traditional wooden wheel)
  2. doorjamb of the oven
  3. handmill
  4. curved beam of the plough

Derived terms
  • Camba
  • cambadela (“somersault”)
  • Cambados
  • cambar (“to bend”)
  • cambela (a type of plough)
  • Cambela
  • cambelo (a bent stick)
  • cambeta (a special clamp)
  • cambiar (“to change”)
  • cambo
  • cambón (a number of pronged tools)
  • cambota (“hood of a fireplace”)

References
  1. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. cama II.

Occitan

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkambo]

Noun

camba f (plural cambas)

  1. leg

Portuguese

Verb

camba

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of cambar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of cambar

Spanish

Etymology

From a vesre form of bacán.

Noun

camba m (plural cambas)

  1. (vesre) pimp
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