Bambara

See also: bambara

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑmˈbɑɹ.ə/, /-ɑ/

Noun

Bambara (plural Bambaras or Bambara)

A member of a Mandé ethnic group native to much of West Africa.

Translations

person

Finnish: bambara (fi)
Moore: bambarenga

Proper noun

Bambara

A West Sudanic language spoken mainly in Mali by as many as six million people, and by smaller numbers of people in Senegal Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Gambia.

Translations

language

Afrikaans: Bambara (af)
Alemannic German: Bambara
Armenian: բամբարա (hy) (bambara)
Asturian: bambara
Bambara: mandenkan, bamanankan
Basque: bambara
Breton: bambareg
Bulgarian: Бамбара (Bambara)
Catalan: bamana, bamanakan, bambara (ca), bamanaia, baumana
Chinese:
Mandarin: 班巴拉语 (zh)
Chuvash: бамбара (bambara)
Corsican: bambara (co)
Czech: bambarština
Danish: bambara
Dutch: Bambara (nl) n
Esperanto: Bambara lingvo, Bambara
Estonian: bambara keel
Finnish: bambara (fi), bamanankan
French: bambara (fr) m
Galician: bambara (gl)
German: Bambara (de) n
Central Franconian: Bambara
Greek: μπαμπάρα (el) n pl (bampára)
Hungarian: bambara (hu)
Icelandic: bambara
Indonesian: bahasa Bambara
Irish: Bambairis f
Italian: bambara (it) f
Japanese: バンバラ語 (ja) (banbara-go)
Korean: 밤바라어 (bambara'eo)
Latin: lingua Bambara
Latvian: bambaru valoda
Ligurian: bambara
Limburgish: Bambara
Lithuanian: bambarų
Low German: Bambara
Luxembourgish: Bambara
Norwegian: bambara
Nynorsk: bambara
Occitan: bambara
Polish: bambara (pl), bamana
Portuguese: bambara (pt) m
Russian: бамана (ru) (bamana), бамбара (ru) (bambara), бамананкан (bamanankan)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Бамана, Бамбара

Roman: Bamana, Bambara
Sicilian: bambara (scn)
Slovene: bambarščina
Spanish: bambara (es)
Swahili: Kibambara
Swedish: bambara (sv)
Tamil: பம்பாரா மொழி (pampārā moḻi)
Turkish: Bambara (tr)
Urdu: بمبارا
Venetian: bambara
Vietnamese: tiếng Bambara
Welsh: Bambara

Further reading

Bambara language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

ISO 639-1 code bm, ISO 639-3 code bam (SIL)
Ethnologue entry for Bambara, bam ⁠

Wiktionary’s coverage of Bambara terms

Bambara

Alternative forms

بامبارا

Proper noun

Bambara

Alternative form of Bámánánkán (“Bambara”)

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