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say it: GAM-buh
gamba is a noun meaning "viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello". It carries one recorded sense.
viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gamba come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.