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Shamba vs Shamla - What's the difference?

shamba | shamla |

As nouns the difference between shamba and shamla

is that 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 while shamla is a girdle for the waist, worn in India.

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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    shamla

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A girdle for the waist, worn in India.