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semba

semba noun: a genre of traditional music and dance from Angola.

Noun

semba (uncountable)

  1. A genre of traditional music and dance from Angola.

Origin of semba

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

Questions about semba

What does semba mean?
Semba means a genre of traditional music and dance from Angola.
What part of speech is semba?
Semba is a noun.

Words near semba in the dictionary

  1. sematrope
  2. sematropes
  3. sematurid
  4. sematurids
  5. semaxanib
  6. semba
  7. semblable
  8. semblables
  9. semblably
  10. semblance
  11. semblances

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