gamba

See also: Gamba, gambá, gambă, and gâmba

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

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

Noun

gamba

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

Related terms

Etymologically related terms

• gamb
• gambade, gambado
• gambit
• gambol
• gambrel
• viola da gamba, gambist

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡam.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡam.ba]
• Hyphenation: gam‧ba

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian gamba. Doublet of cama.

Noun

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. leg

   Synonym: cama

2. shank (any of various birds in the genus Tringa)

Derived terms

• gamba roja
• gamba verda

Etymology 2

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

Noun

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. shrimp

Etymology 3

Verb

gamba

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

Further reading

• “gamba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣɑm.baː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: gam‧ba
• Rhymes: -ɑmbaː

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. viola da gamba

   Synonym: knieviool

Derived terms

• gambist

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Catalan gamba, Portuguese gamba or French gamba.

Noun

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

1. scampi, prawn

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃.ba/

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. large prawn

Galician

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡambɐ]

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. leg

   Synonym: perna

Derived terms

• meter a gamba

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Catalan gamba (“shrimp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡambɐ]

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. shrimp

   Synonym: camarón

References

• “gamba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “gamba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “gamba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gooniyandi

Noun

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

References

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

Interlingua

Noun

gamba (plural gambas)

1. leg

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

gamba m (genitive singular gamba, nominative plural gambaí)

1. lump, hunk, dollop

Declension

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

Mutation

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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gamba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gamba”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “gamba”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.ba/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: gàm‧ba

Noun

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

• gambetto
• in gamba

Related terms

• gambaccia
• gambacorta
• gambale
• gambata
• gambetta
• gambona
• gambuccia
• viola da gamba

 

Descendants

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

See also

• coscia

Further reading

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• camba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.ba/, [ˈɡämbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.ba/, [ˈɡämbä]

Noun

gamba f (genitive gambae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Descendants

• Italian: gamba
  • → English: gam; gamba
  • → Ido: gambo
• Old French: jambe, gambe; ganbe
  • Middle French: jambe, gambe
    • French: jambe
    • → Middle English: gambe
      • English: gamb
    • → Middle English: jambe
      • English: jamb
  • Norman: gambe
  • Picard: gambe
  • Walloon: djambe
• Romanian: gambă
• Sicilian: jamma
• Spanish: gamba

References

• “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

Etymology

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

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. leg

References

• AEDLL

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɐ̃.bɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃bɐ
• Hyphenation: gam‧ba

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. shrimp (decapod crustacean)

   Synonym: camarão

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡamba/

Noun

gamba f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gambă

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. (Spain) shrimp

   Synonym: camarón (Latin America)

2. (Spain, derogatory slang) butterface, prawn

Derived terms

• hombre gamba
• mujer gamba

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian gamba, from Late Latin gamba.

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. (Argentina, colloquial) leg

   Synonym: pierna

2. (Chile, colloquial) 100 pesos

Derived terms

• hacer la gamba
• meter la gamba

 

Further reading

• “gamba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

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

See also

• ngozi