Bambara

noun

Bam·​ba·​ra bam-ˈbär-ə 

plural Bambara or Bambaras

1

: a member of an African people of the upper Niger

2

: a Mande language of the Bambara people

Examples of Bambara in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Toni Cade Bambara says the job of the artist is to make revolution irresistible. — Literary Hub, 4 May 2026

Read a story by Toni Cade Bambara, or Ursula Le Guin, or Charles Johnson, or Louise Erdrich, or Raymond Carver, or Jamaica Kincaid, to name just a few of the legends at work in the seventies. — Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026

Others on the bill include Pretty Bitter, Bambara, Ragana, Pinky Lemon, Snowing, Gladie, Spring Silver, Thisdogllhunt, Eevie Echoes & the Locations, Mx Lonely, and Adult Human Females. — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026

Another five percent were likely of the Mandingo, Bambara, Malinke, Wolof, and Fulbe tribes of the Senegambia port, and the last portion were thought to be of the Bight of Benin, kidnapped from places in modern Benin and Lagos, Nigeria. — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Arabic bambāra, probably ultimately from Bambara bamana, a self-designation

First Known Use

1764, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for Bambara

• alara
• amara
• antara
• aymara
• camara
• damara
• gandhara
• gemara
• gurdwara
• kumara
• negara
• samarra