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amba

amba noun: a characteristic landform in Ethiopia: a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of a settlement.

Noun (1)

amba (plural ambas)

  1. A characteristic landform in Ethiopia: a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of a settlement.

Noun (2)

amba (uncountable)

  1. A blended mash of mainly pickled mango, used as a side dish or condiment.

Proper noun capitalized: Amba

Amba

  1. (Hinduism) an epithet of goddess Durga.
  2. (Hinduism) Name of the eldest daughter of the king of Kasi in the epic Mahabharata.
  3. A female given name from Sanskrit.

Forms of amba

pluralambas

Origin of amba

Borrowed from Amharic ዐምባ (ʿämba).

From Arabic عَمْبَة (ʕamba) and Hebrew עמבה; ultimately from Sanskrit आम्र (āmra).

Borrowed from Sanskrit अम्बा (ambā).

Questions about amba

What does amba mean?
Amba means a characteristic landform in Ethiopia: a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of a settlement.
What part of speech is amba?
Amba can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of amba?
The plural of amba is ambas.

Words near amba in the dictionary

  1. amazonstone
  2. amazonstones
  3. amaZulu
  4. amb
  5. amb.
  6. amba
  7. Ambae
  8. ambage
  9. ambages
  10. ambagiosity
  11. ambagious

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