Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.

    Samba

    са́мбаsámba

  2. (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 sentences
  1. I don't like samba.

    Мені не подобається самба. — shanghainese

    ruМне не нравится самба. — Balamax

  2. The waltz and the samba are dances.

    ruВальс и самба - это танцы. — fjay69

    deWalzer und Samba sind Tänze. — Melang

  3. Jenny dances the samba.

    ruДженни танцует самбу. — Balamax

  4. I don't know how to dance hip-hop, salsa, samba, tango or anything else.

  5. The tamborim lends a very slightly uneven and highly distinctive 16th note groove to samba music.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
Brazilian ballroom dance:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Brazilian ballroom dance:

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: sambas
Singularsamba
Pluralsambas

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
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Word family

3 related words

See also

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