camba

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamba/ [ˈkãm.ba]
• Rhymes: -amba
• Syllabification: cam‧ba

From Proto-Celtic *kambos (“curved”). Cognate with Walloon tchame (“wheelrim”), Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”), Welsh cam (“crooked”).^[1]

camba f (plural cambes)

1. each one of the bent pieces of the felly (in a traditional wooden wheel)

From Latin camba (“leg”). Last attested in 1946 (Ensayo de un Vocabulario Bable de la Rima, Antonio García Oliveros, 1946).

camba f (plural cambes)

1. (obsolete) leg

• “camba” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.
• “camba” in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamba/ [ˈkɑm.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: cam‧ba

From Proto-Celtic *kambos (“curved”). Cognate with Walloon tchame (“wheelrim”), Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”), Welsh cam (“crooked”).^[1]

camba f (plural cambas)

1. each one of the bent pieces of the felly (in a traditional wooden wheel)
2. doorjamb of the oven
3. handmill
4. curved beam of the plough

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “camba”, 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), “camba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “camba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

camba

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

• gamba

From Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkam.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkam.ba]

camba f (genitive cambae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) leg

First-declension noun.

• Asturian: camba
• Catalan: cama
• Franco-Provençal: chamba
• Gascon: cama
• Occitan: camba, chamba
• Old Spanish: cama

• “gamba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "camba", 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.

From Late Latin camba

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambo/

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camba f (plural cambas)

1. leg
2. stem (plants)

• cama
• chamba

• cambajon

camba

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

Borrowed from Amdo Tibetan [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ʝɑmpɑ(ː)/, /ʝɑmpɑχ/

camba (3rd person possessive cambası, plural cambalar)

1. (anatomy) cheek
2. side

   yelinküt camba

   shady side

• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “camba”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[1], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 123
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “camba”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 371
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “camba”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[2], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 84
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “camba”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 46

From a vesre form of bacán.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamba/ [ˈkãm.ba]
• Rhymes: -amba
• Syllabification: cam‧ba

camba m (plural cambas)

1. (vesre) pimp

camba

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

• “camba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024