# camba
## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkamba/ [ˈkãm.ba]
* Rhymes: -amba
* Hyphenation: cam‧ba

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

camba f (plural cambes)
* each one of the bent pieces of the felly (in a traditional wooden wheel)

##### Derived terms

* cambiella
* cambiellu

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

camba f (plural cambes)
* (obsolete) leg

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “cama II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkamba/ [ˈkɑm.bɐ]
* Rhymes: -amba
* Hyphenation: cam‧ba

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

camba f (plural cambas)
* each one of the bent pieces of the felly (in a traditional wooden wheel)
* doorjamb of the oven
* handmill
* curved beam of the plough

##### Derived terms

* Camba
* cambadela (“somersault”)
* Cambados
* cambar (“to bend”)
* cambela (“a type of plough”)
* Cambela
* cambelo (“a bent stick”)
* cambeta (“a special clamp”)
* cambiar (“to change”)
* cambo
* cambón (“a number of pronged tools”)
* cambota (“hood of a fireplace”)

#### References

* 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
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “cama II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

camba
* inflection of cambar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* gamba

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ)

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkam.ba/, [ˈkämbä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkam.ba/, [ˈkämbä]

### Noun

camba f (genitive cambae); first declension
* (Late Latin) leg

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

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

### References

* “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.

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Late Latin camba

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkambo/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

camba f (plural cambas)
* leg
* stem (plants)

#### Dialectal variants

* cama
* chamba

#### Derived terms

* cambajon

## Portuguese
### Verb

camba
* inflection of cambar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Salar

Picture dictionary :
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dodaq
purun
ağız
yañaq
camba
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gulaq
meñzi
boyun
kürlük
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### Etymology

Borrowed from Amdo Tibetan [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʝɑmpɑ(ː)/, /ʝɑmpɑχ/

### Noun

camba (3rd person possessive cambası, plural cambalar)
* (anatomy) cheek
* side
    yelinküt cambashady side

### References

* 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “camba”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎, 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, 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

## Spanish
### Etymology

From a vesre form of bacán.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkamba/ [ˈkãm.ba]
* Rhymes: -amba
* Syllabification: cam‧ba

### Noun

camba m (plural cambas)
* (vesre) pimp

### Verb

camba
* inflection of cambar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10