Etymology

semba

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Today it means: A genre of traditional music and dance from Angola. Full definition →

Portuguese semba ← Kimbundu semba ← Proto-Bantu [Term?]
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  1. Proto-Bantu · derived from[Term?]
  2. Kimbundu · derived fromsemba“belly-bump”
  3. Portuguese · borrowed fromsemba
  4. English todaysemba

Borrowed from Portuguese semba, from Kimbundu semba (“belly-bump”), from Proto-Bantu [Term?]. Doublet of samba.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.