machamba

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili mashamba (“farms, plots of land”),^[1]^[2] plural form of shamba.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈʃɐ̃.bɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈʃɐ̃.ba/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈʃɐ̃.bɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈt͡ʃɐ̃.bɐ/

Hyphenation: ma‧cham‧ba

Noun

machamba f (plural machambas)

(Mozambique) shamba (plot of cultivated land)

References

^ “machamba”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
^ “machamba”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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