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Samba vs Shamba - What's the difference?

samba | shamba |

As nouns the difference between samba and shamba

is that samba is a Brazilian ballroom dance while shamba is an area of cultivated ground; a plot of land, a small subsistence farm for growing crops and fruit-bearing trees, often including the dwelling of the farmer.

As a verb samba

is to dance the samba.

samba

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A Brazilian ballroom dance.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dance the samba.

    • External links

    * ("samba" on Wikipedia) ----

    shamba

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (East Africa) An area of cultivated ground; a plot of land, a small subsistence farm for growing crops and fruit-bearing trees, often including the dwelling of the farmer.
  • * 1967 , Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat , EAEP 2008, p. 4:
    • To reach his new strip of shamba which lay the other side of Thabai, Mugo had to walk through the dusty village streets.
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