[Gambas-user] About gambas, the word

[Charlie Reinl]

Am Donnerstag, den 13.07.2017, 10:18 +0200 schrieb 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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> 😁😁😁
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> Best Regards
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> 2017-07-13 8:37 GMT+02:00 Fernando Cabral <fernandojosecabral at ...626...>:
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> > *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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There is the old meaning : Gambas Almost Means BASIC!

look here http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html 
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Amicalement
Charlie