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shamba
shamba
English
Noun
shamba (plural shambas)
- (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, Ngũgĩ 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.
- 1967, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP 2008, p. 4:
Swahili
Noun
shamba (ma class, plural mashamba)
- garden, farm (any land that is cultivated), field
- (in plural) the countryside