Etymograph

English

shamba

Shamba comes from Swahili shamba ‘garden, farm, field, plantation, estate’.

  1. Swahilimodernshamba‘garden, farm, field, plantation, estate’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1967shamba

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

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  1. Swahilimodernshamba‘garden, farm, field, plantation, estate’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1967shamba

Earliest quotation: 1967, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat: “To reach his new strip of shamba which lay…”

Every English word from Swahili shamba

Today it means

noun 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.

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Etymograph / Swahili shamba / shamba

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