gamba

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

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.

Latin gamba (“leg”); compare gamb, gambol.

gamba

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

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.ba/

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. leg

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. shrimp

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

1. viola da gamba

   Synonym: knieviool

2. prawn

• gambist

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. large prawn

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

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

gamba (plural gambas)

1. leg

gamba m (genitive singular gamba, nominative plural gambaí)

1. lump, hunk, dollop

• "gamba" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “gamba” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “gamba” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡamba]

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gamba f (plural gambe)

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

• in gamba

• coscia
• piede

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.ba/

gamba f (genitive gambae); first declension

1. hoof

First declension.

• Italian: gamba
• English: gamb, gamba
• French: jambe

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. leg

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

• Hyphenation: gam‧ba

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. shrimp (decapod crustacean)

   Synonym: camarão

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡamba/, [ˈɡãmba]

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. (Argentina, colloquial) leg

   Synonym: pierna

2. (Spain) shrimp

   Synonym: camarón (Latin America)

3. (Chile, colloquial) 100 pesos

• hacer la gamba
• meter la gamba

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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