Bambara

See also: bambara

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑmˈbɑɹ.ə/, /-ɑ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Bambara (plural Bambaras or Bambara)

1. A member of a Mandé ethnic group native to much of West Africa.
2. The Bambara groundnut, Vigna subterranea.

Translations

person

• Finnish: bambara (fi)
• Moore: bambarenga

Proper noun

Bambara

1. A West Sudanic language spoken mainly in Mali by as many as six million people, and by smaller numbers of people in Senegal Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Gambia.

Translations

language

• Afrikaans: Bambara (af)
• Armenian: բամբարա (hy) (bambara)
• Asturian: bambara
• Bambara: mandenkan, bamanankan
• Basque: bambara
• Breton: bambareg
• Bulgarian: Бамбара (Bambara)
• Catalan: bamana, bamanakan, bambara (ca), bamanaia, baumana
• Cherokee: ᏆᎻᏆᎳ (quamiquala)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 班巴拉语 (zh)

• Chuvash: бамбара (bambara)
• Corsican: bambara (co)
• Czech: bambarština
• Danish: bambara
• Dutch: Bambara (nl) n
• Esperanto: Bambara lingvo, Bambara
• Estonian: bambara keel
• Finnish: bambara (fi), bamanankan
• French: bambara (fr) m
• Galician: bambara (gl)
• German: Bambara (de) n

  Alemannic German: Bambara

  Central Franconian: Bambara

• Greek: μπαμπάρα (el) n pl (bampára)
• Hungarian: bambara (hu)
• Icelandic: bambara
• Indonesian: bahasa Bambara
• Irish: Bambairis f
• Italian: bambara (it) f
• Japanese: バンバラ語 (ja) (banbara-go)
• Korean: 밤바라어 (bambara'eo)
• Latin: lingua Bambara
• Latvian: bambaru valoda
• Ligurian: bambara
• Limburgish: Bambara
• Lithuanian: bambarų
• Low German: Bambara
• Luxembourgish: Bambara
• Norwegian: bambara

  Nynorsk: bambara

• Occitan: bambara
• Polish: bambara (pl), bamana
• Portuguese: bambara (pt) m
• Russian: бамана (ru) (bamana), бамбара (ru) (bambara), бамананкан (bamanankan)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бамана, Бамбара

  Latin: Bamana, Bambara

• Sicilian: bambara (scn)
• Slovene: bambarščina
• Spanish: bambara (es)
• Swahili: Kibambara
• Swedish: bambara (sv)
• Tamil: பம்பாரா மொழி (pampārā moḻi)
• Turkish: Bambara (tr)
• Urdu: بمبارا
• Venetan: bambara
• Vietnamese: tiếng Bambara
• Welsh: Bambara

Derived terms

• Bambara bean, Bambara groundnut, Bambara nut

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code bm, ISO 639-3 code bam (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Bambara, bam ⁠
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bambara terms

Bambara

Alternative forms

• بامبارا

Proper noun

Bambara

1. alternative form of Bámánánkán (“Bambara”)