ambata

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ambata f (uncountable)

1. sea breeze
   • 1984, A Filetta (lyrics and music), “I pescadori è u mare”, in Cun tè:

     Ramentati le sponde // di la mio terra amata // di mille canti è gridi // a l’ora di l’ambata.

     Remember of the shores of my beloved land, of a thousand songs and cries in the hour of the sea breeze.

• “ambata” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

ambata f (plural ambate)

1. (in the Italian state lottery) a single number that can be coupled (in several winning ways) with any of the other 89 numbers

• See Lotto for details.

From kwamba (“to peg (out), to stretch out”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /aᵐbata/

ambata (infinitive kwambata)

1. to come up, to go up, to ascend

• gũikũrũka

(Nouns)

• mwambato class 3

• kũhaica

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

From Proto-Bantu .

• Audio (Kenya):

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-ambata (infinitive kuambata)

1. to adhere; clasp, join, stick, cling; connect

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -ambatisha
  • Reciprocal: -ambatana