shamba

From Swahili shamba.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʃambə/

shamba (plural shambas)

1. (East Africa) An area of cultivated ground; a plot of land, a small subsistence farm for growing crops and fruit-bearing trees, often including the dwelling of the farmer.
   • 1967, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP, published 2008, page 4:

     To reach his new strip of shamba which lay the other side of Thabai, Mugo had to walk through the dusty village streets.

• shamba boy

• Bahams, Basham

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑ.ᵐbɑ/

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shamba class V (plural mashamba class VI)

1. garden, farm (any land that is cultivated), field, plantation
2. (in the plural) the countryside

• mshamba