Wiktionary
n. (context East Africa English) 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.
Wikipedia
Shamba may refer to:
- Sergei Shamba (b. 1951), Abkhazian politician
- Shamba, alternate name of Shonbeh, a city in Iran
- Shamba is a Swahili word for a small plot used for growing subsistence crops and fruit-bearing trees, often including the dwelling of the farmer.
- Shamba is also a shona word that means bath in English or geza in shona. Shona is a Zimbabwean language spoken by the Zezuru, manyika, matoko, mavitori people.
Usage examples of "shamba".
He was writing of King Shamba Bolongongo, whose rule over the Bushongo began around A.
They were still coming through as we went down to the shamba at dawn to milk the goats.
One day when we went down to the shamba there were no names and stones from the Ukerewe house.
They moved through the cool rain forest quietly and efficiently, alert for any signs of the Shamba Scum.
But Lojtnant Subru was in Administration, he had access to all the facts about the campaign against the Shamba Scum and he believed that the rebels were able to knock off men in class three body armor with spetsdods, something Khadaji himself knew was impossible.
The rain was going to make a mess of whatever was under the hole, but that was one more blow for the Shamba Freedom Forces against the Confed.
They called it the Shamba Police Action before they had discovered that only a single soldier existed on the opposite side.
Ugandan shamba boy who helped Justin in the garden and whose name Woodrow had never managed to retain, and the illegal South Sudanese refugee called Esmeralda who was always having boy trouble.
Dima was there about a year ago and he says the whole mountain was bare, nothing but shambas, the lake we called Paradise dried up, most of the waterholes too.