samba
A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance styleA Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
» I don't like samba.
Мне не нравится самба. — Balamax
Мені не подобається самба. — shanghainese
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2 senses(countable, uncountable)A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
Samba
са́мбаsámba
(countable, uncountable)A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa
Examples
11 sentencesI don't like samba.
Мені не подобається самба. — shanghainese
ruМне не нравится самба. — Balamax
The waltz and the samba are dances.
ruВальс и самба - это танцы. — fjay69
deWalzer und Samba sind Tänze. — Melang
Jenny dances the samba.
ruДженни танцует самбу. — Balamax
I don't know how to dance hip-hop, salsa, samba, tango or anything else.
The tamborim lends a very slightly uneven and highly distinctive 16th note groove to samba music.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba.Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba.
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Forms
plural: sambasSynonyms
4 synonyms- 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:obecheobechiarereTriplochiton scleroxcylon
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable