Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To dance the samba.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style. · A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
Etymology tree Kongo sembabor.? Brazilian Portuguese sambabor. English samba Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese samba, possibly borrowed from Kongo semba. Doublet of semba.
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