[Gambas-user] About gambas, the word

[Jorge Carrión]

It's a joke, I think. Searching for something that contains BAS, from
Basic. Why an animal I don't know. Benoit likes to eat prawns, I soppouse...

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2017-07-13 8:37 GMT+02:00 Fernando Cabral <fernandojosecabral at ...626...>:

> *Warning: this is only a linguistic curiosity with no relation to Gambas,
> the language.*
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> Entirely by chance, I came across the following definition and etymology
> for gambas, the word:
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> *From Petit Robert 2007: gambasgambas [gɑ̃bas] nom féminin plurielétym.
> répandu v. 1960; catalan gamba, du latin populaire cambarus, classique
> cammarus, du grec kammarosv■ Grosses crevettes comestibles de la
> Méditerranée. Gambas frites (è scampi), grillées. Brochette de gambas.▫
> Rare Une gamba [gɑ̃ba].*
> In Brazil, I never heard the word gamba. I never found it in written text.
> Nevertheless, at least one Brazilian dictionary registers it as a Spanish
> word only recently introduced into Portuguese. So, perhaps it is used in
> Portugal.
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> Anyway, it is interesting to know that, in the end, it comes from Greek
> "kammaros" that gave us the Portuguese "camarão" and the Italian
> "gamberetto". Nevertheless, at the first sight, it is hard to see that
> "gamba" and "camarão" come from the same Greek word.
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