gamba

Meaning

1. (Spain, feminine) shrimp
2. (Spain, derogatory, feminine, slang) butterface, prawn
3. (Chile, colloquial, feminine) 100 pesos

Concepts

prawn

shrimp

🦐

peseta

Synonyms

camarón

🦐

langostino

quisquilla

🦐

esquila

ladron

acamaya

crevettes

boca

gámba

zapato

👞

Translations

crevette

🦐

Garnele

🦐

gamberetto

🦐

garnaal

🦐

gamba

🦵

γαρίδα

gambero

granchiolino

camarão

🦐

جمبري

karides

🦐

chevrette

🧒

روبيان

🦐

crevette rose

Hyphenated as

gam‧ba

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡamba/

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian: gamba

In summary

Borrowed from Catalan gamba, from Late Latin *gambarus, from Latin gammarus / cammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros).
Sense 3 comes from the old 100 Chilean pesos banknote having the color of a shrimp.