gamba

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

gamba (plural gambas) (music)

1. Abbreviation of viola da gamba.
2. A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba.

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

gamba

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

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

gamba (uncountable)

1. (Twitch-speak) Gambling.

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

Borrowed from Italian gamba. Doublet of cama.

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. leg

   Synonym: cama

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

• gamba roja
• gamba verda

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

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. shrimp

gamba

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣɑm.baː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: gam‧ba
• Rhymes: -ɑmbaː

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

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

1. viola da gamba

   Synonym: knieviool

• gambist

Borrowed from Catalan gamba, Portuguese gamba or French gamba.

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

1. scampi, prawn

Borrowed from Spanish gamba.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃.ba/

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. large prawn

• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: gam‧ba

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

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. leg

   Synonym: perna

Borrowed from Catalan gamba (“shrimp”).

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. shrimp

   Synonym: camarón

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gamba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gamba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gamba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

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

gamba m (genitive singular gamba, nominative plural gambaí)

1. lump, hunk, dollop

• 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

From Late Latin gamba

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡam.ba/

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• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: gàm‧ba

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)

• gambetto
• in gamba

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

• coscia

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

• camba

From Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ, “fixture, bend, winding”)

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

gamba f (genitive gambae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• 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

• “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.

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

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. leg

• AEDLL

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

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃bɐ
• Hyphenation: gam‧ba

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. shrimp (decapod crustacean)

   Synonym: camarão

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡamba/

gamba f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gambă

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

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

gamba f (plural gambas) (Spain)

1. shrimp

   Synonym: camarón (Latin America)

2. (derogatory slang) butterface, prawn

Borrowed from Italian gamba, from Late Latin gamba.

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. (Argentina, colloquial) leg

   Synonym: pierna

2. (Chile, colloquial) 100 pesos

• “gamba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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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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