# bamba
## Catalan
### Etymology

Of expressive origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈbam.bə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈbam.ba]

### Noun

bamba f (plural bambes)
* bubble, blister
    Synonyms: bombolla, bòfia

#### Derived terms

* coca bamba

### Further reading

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

## Gamilaraay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bamba/

### Adverb

bamba
* hard
* loud

### References

* (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbam.ba/
* Rhymes: -amba
* Hyphenation: bàm‧ba

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic/sound-symbolic. See bambo.

#### Noun

bamba f (plural bambe)
* (obsolete) doll
    Synonym: bambola
* (slang, uncountable) cocaine

#### Noun

bamba m or f by sense (invariable)
* (dialectal, Milan) naive person, fool, idiot

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish bamba, of onomatopoeic origin.

#### Noun

bamba f (plural bambe)
* a Latin-American dance

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

bamba f sg
* feminine singular of bambo

### Further reading

* bamba in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

## Juba Arabic
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbamba/, [ˈbam.ba]

### Noun

bamba
* (slang) girl
** (Can we date this quote?), “Halawa”, performed by Dynamq, River Nile Entertainment:ana ma deru bamba taniI don't want another girl
* (slang) girlfriend

## Lingala
### Verb

bamba
* to fix, to repair

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

Cognate with Latvian bamba (“ball, knob; pestle”), of uncertain origin. Probably a sound-symbolic independent formation in Baltic, with bilabial stops denoting rounded objects; for a similar formation, compare Sanskrit बिम्ब (bimba, “disc; sphere; image”), as well as the bouba-kiki effect for more on the phenomenon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbambɐ]

### Noun

bámba f (plural bámbos) stress pattern 1
* (anatomy) navel, bellybutton
* bulge or growth (on a tree)

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “bámba”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎ (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 46

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɐ̃.bɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɐ̃bɐ
* Hyphenation: bam‧ba

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Kimbundu mbamba (“master”).

#### Adjective

bamba m or f (plural bambas)
* (Brazil) of renown, a bigshot
** valiant, valorous
** expert, a hotshot, a pro

##### Synonyms

* bambambã

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

bamba
* feminine singular of bambo

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbamba/ [ˈbãm.ba]
* Rhymes: -amba
* Syllabification: bam‧ba

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Noun

bamba f (plural bambas)
* hit, strike (in a game)
    Synonym: acierto
* (dance) a Latin American dance

### Etymology 2

From a trademark.

#### Noun

bamba f (plural bambas)
* sneaker
    Synonym: playera
* flip-flop, thong, jandal
    Synonyms: chancla, sandalia

### Further reading

* “bamba”, 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

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-bamba (infinitive kubamba)
* to capture (take control of)
* to resist (oppose)

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -bamba :
| Positive present | -nabamba |
| Subjunctive | -bambe |
| Negative | -bambi |
| Imperative singular | bamba |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kubamba |
| Negative | kutobamba |
Imperatives :
| Singular | bamba |
| Plural | bambeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hubamba |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -libamba |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kubamba |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tabamba |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tabamba |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sibambe |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngebamba |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singebamba |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalibamba |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalibamba |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mebamba |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshabamba |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jabamba |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kibamba |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipobamba |
| Consecutive | kabamba / positive subject concord + -kabamba |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kabambe |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

## Swazi
### Verb

-bamba
* to get hold of, to catch, to grasp, to hold

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Probably shortening of barnbespisning. The traditional Gothenburg dialect has no retroflex consonants, so barn would be pronounced ban, and then /n/ assimilated to /m/ in front of /b/.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbamba/
* Rhymes: -amba

### Noun

bamba c
* (dialectal, Gothenburg) school canteen
** 2019, Ulrika Karlsson, “Skola utrymd efter brand – elever får gå hem [School evacuated after fire – pupils have to go home]”, in Göteborgs-Posten‎:Det var en elcentral i närheten av bamba som brann, och det var ganska mycket rökspridning i lokalen[…]It was a distribution box near the school canteen that was burning, and quite a lot of smoke spreading in the room[…]

#### Derived terms

* bambamat
* bambarast
* bambatant

### References

* Bamba. Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. 1 September 2016.
* bamba in Svensk ordbok (SO)

## Wolio
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɓaᵐba/

### Noun

bamba
* door

### References

* Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris

## Xhosa
### Etymology

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

### Verb

-bamba
* to touch
* to catch

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Zulu
### Etymology

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

### Verb

-bamba
* to catch, to grip
* to arrest, to restrain
* to adhere, to be sticky, to make stick
* to understand, to comprehend
* to hold/keep back, to delay
* to hinder
* to undertake, to engage

#### Inflection
### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “ɓamba”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “ɓamba (6.3)”