# gamba
## English
### Etymology 1

From viola da gamba, ultimately from Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of gam, gamb, jamb, and jambe.

#### Noun

gamba (plural gambas) (music)
* Abbreviation of viola da gamba.
* A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba.

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin gamba (“leg”); compare gambol. Doublet of gam, gamb, jamb, and jambe.

#### Noun

gamba
* (anatomy) The metacarpus or metatarsus of ruminants, etc.

##### Related terms

* gamb
* gambade, gambado
* gambit
* gambol
* gambrel
* viola da gamba, gambist

### Etymology 3

Alteration of gamble.

#### Noun

gamba (countable and uncountable, plural gambas)
* (Twitch-speak) Gambling.

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡam.bə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈɡam.ba]
* Hyphenation: gam‧ba

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian gamba. Doublet of cama.

#### Noun

gamba f (plural gambes)
* leg
    Synonym: cama
* shank (any of various birds in the genus Tringa)

##### Derived terms

* gamba roja
* gamba verda

### Etymology 2

From Late Latin gambărus, from cammărus, from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros, “lobster”).

#### Noun

gamba f (plural gambes)
* shrimp

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

gamba
* inflection of gambar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɣɑm.baː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: gam‧ba
* Rhymes: -ɑmbaː

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian viola da gamba, from gamba (“leg”).

#### Noun

gamba f (plural gamba's, diminutive gambaatje n)
* viola da gamba
    Synonym: knieviool

##### Derived terms

* gambist

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Catalan gamba, Portuguese gamba or French gamba.

#### Noun

gamba f (plural gamba's, diminutive gambaatje n)
* scampi, prawn

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gamba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɑ̃.ba/

### Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)
* large prawn

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡamba/ [ˈɡɑm.bɐ]
* IPA: (standard) /ˈɡamba/ [ˈɡɑm.bɐ]
* IPA: (gheada) /ˈħamba/ [ˈħɑm.bɐ]
* Rhymes: -amba
* Hyphenation: gam‧ba

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin gamba (“leg”).

#### Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)
* leg
    Synonym: perna

##### Derived terms

* meter a gamba

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Catalan gamba (“shrimp”).

#### Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)
* shrimp
    Synonym: camarón

### References

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

## Gooniyandi
### Noun

gamba
* water
    yoowarni gamba ― one serving of water
* wet season
* year (because years are measured from one wet season to the next)
    yoowarni gamba ― one year

### References

* William B. McGregor, A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi (1990, →ISBN, page 260

## Interlingua
### Noun

gamba (plural gambas)
* leg

## Irish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

gamba m (genitive singular gamba, nominative plural gambaí)
* lump, hunk, dollop

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
gamba
gambaí
vocative
a ghamba
a ghambaí
genitive
gamba
gambaí
dative
gamba
gambaí
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an gamba
na gambaí
genitive
an ghamba
na ngambaí
dative
leis an ngamba don ghamba
leis na gambaí :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gamba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gamba”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “gamba”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Italian
### Etymology

From Late Latin gamba

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡam.ba/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -amba
* Hyphenation: gàm‧ba

### Noun

gamba f (plural gambe, diminutive gambétta or gambìna or gambìno m, augmentative gambóna or gambóne m, pejorative gambàccia, endearing-derogatory gambùccia)
* leg
* leg (from knee to ankle), shank
* leg (of furniture)
* stroke (of a letter)

#### Derived terms

* gambetto
* in gamba

#### Related terms

* gambaccia
* gambacorta
* gambale
* gambata
* gambetta
* gambona
* gambuccia
* viola da gamba

#### Descendants

* → English: gam; gamba
* → Ido: gambo

### See also

* coscia

### Further reading

* gamba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* camba

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ, “fixture, bend, winding”)

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

gamba f (genitive gambae); first declension
* (Late Latin, of animals) hock, shank
* (Medieval Latin) (upper part of) leg, thigh

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Italian: gamba
** → English: gam; gamba
** → Ido: gambo
* Old French: jambe, gambe, ganbe
** Middle French: jambe, gambe
*** French: jambe
*** → Middle English: gambe
**** English: gamb
*** → Middle English: jambe
**** English: jamb
** Norman: gambe
** Picard: gambe
** Walloon: djambe
* Romanian: gambă
* Sicilian: jamma
* Spanish: gamba

### References

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

## Leonese
### Etymology

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

### Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)
* leg

### References

* AEDLL

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Italian gamba or Vulgar Latin *gambarus, from Latin cammarus, gammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɐ̃.bɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɐ̃bɐ
* Hyphenation: gam‧ba

### Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)
* shrimp (decapod crustacean)
    Synonym: camarão

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡamba/

### Noun

gamba f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of gambă

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡamba/ [ˈɡãm.ba]
* Rhymes: -amba
* Syllabification: gam‧ba

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Catalan gamba, from Late Latin *gambarus, from Latin gammarus / cammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros).

#### Noun

gamba f (plural gambas) (Spain)
* shrimp
    Synonym: camarón (Latin America)
* (derogatory slang) butterface, prawn

##### Derived terms

* hombre gamba
* mujer gamba

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian gamba, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin gamba / camba (“leg”), from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ, “bending”).

#### Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)
* (Argentina, colloquial) leg
    Synonym: pierna
* (Chile, colloquial) 100 pesos

##### Related terms

* hacer la gamba
* meter la gamba
* viola de gamba

#### References

* ↑ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 742
* ↑ “gamba”, 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

### Further reading

* “gamba”, 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
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

gamba class V (plural magamba class VI)
* bark (of a tree)
* skin (of a scaly animal)
* scale (of an animal)
* armor
* shell

#### See also

* ngozi