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Shamba
/ˈʃambə/
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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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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| shapononoun | Alternative spelling of shabono. [A communal hut built by the Yanomamo, traditionally of thatched palm leaves and wood and divided into areas for different family units.] |
| barazanoun | A council or assembly in parts of East Africa. |
| nyanzanoun | (usually capitalized, in place names) A lake (in Africa). |
| mbuganoun | A seasonal swamp in East Africa. |
| shaurinoun | (Kenya) One's problem; concern. |
| shukanoun | A sash (decorative length of cloth) worn in parts of Africa. |
| chamanoun | (East Africa, chiefly Kenya) Any of several types of informal cooperative society. |
| khayanoun | (South Africa, slang) Anyone's house or home. |
| komboninoun | A kind of shantytown in Zambia. |
| shabononoun | A communal hut built by the Yanomamo, traditionally of thatched palm leaves and wood and divided into areas for different family units. |
| kibanjanoun | A kind of personal landholding in Uganda. |
| shambuknoun | Alternative spelling of sjambok. [(South Africa) A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.] |
| shamboknoun | Alternative form of sjambok. [(South Africa) A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.] |
| dambonoun | A kind of seasonal shallow wetland in parts of Africa. |
| mophatonoun | (Botswana, South Africa) In Tswana culture, people in the same age group considered as a "regiment". |
| bomanoun | An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders. |
| ujamaanoun | (uncountable) A socialist ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s. |
| zeribanoun | (historical) A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes. |
| harambeenoun | A traditional Kenyan community self-help event or organization. |
| murramnoun | (East Africa, India) Laterite. |
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