samba
Meanings
noun
- A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
- A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
verb
- To dance the samba.
name
- A town and district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba.
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