machamba
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Swahili mashamba (“farms, plots of land”).[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: ma‧cham‧ba
Noun[edit]
machamba f (plural machambas)
- (Mozambique) shamba (plot of cultivated land)
References[edit]
- ^ “machamba” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “machamba” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.