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