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mambo

See also: Mambo

English

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Etymology

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From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).

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Noun

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mambo (countable and uncountable, plural mambos or mamboes)

  1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) [from 20th c.]
    • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 47:
      The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter.
    • 1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 219:
      The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.
    • May 2018, Kyrah Malika Daniels, Whiteness in the Ancestral Waters: Race, Religion, and Conversion within North American Buddhism and Haitian Vodou, The Journal of Interreligious Studies, Issue 23:
      In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.
  2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. [from 20th c.]

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Verb

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mambo (third-person singular simple present mambos, present participle mamboing, simple past and past participle mamboed)

  1. (intransitive) To perform this dance.

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Chuabo

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Noun

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mambo

  1. chief, king

References

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  • Shrum, Jeff (2018) Chuwabo - Portuguese Dictionary‎[1], SIL International

Czech

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Noun

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mambo n

  1. mambo (dance)

Declension

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Declension of mambo (hard neuter reducible)
singular plural
nominative mambo mamba
genitive mamba mamb
dative mambu mambům
accusative mambo mamba
vocative mambo mamba
locative mambu mambech
instrumental mambem mamby

Further reading

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  • “mambo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

French

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Etymology

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From American & Cuban Spanish mambo.

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mambo m (plural mambos)

  1. mambo (music)
  2. mambo (dance)

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Italian

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Etymology

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From American & Cuban Spanish mambo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmam.bo/
  • Rhymes: -ambo
  • Hyphenation: màm‧bo

Noun

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mambo m (invariable)

  1. mambo (dance and music)

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃bu
  • Hyphenation: mam‧bo

Etymology 1

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From Kimbundu mambu.

Noun

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mambo m (plural mambos)

  1. (Angola, colloquial) thing
    Synonym: coisa

Etymology 2

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From American & Cuban Spanish mambo.

Noun

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mambo m (plural mambos)

  1. mambo (music)
  2. mambo (dance)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish mambo or French mambo.

Noun

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mambo n (plural mambouri)

  1. mambo (music)

Declension

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Declension of mambo
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mambo mamboul (niște) mambouri mambourile
genitive/dative (unui) mambo mamboului (unor) mambouri mambourilor
vocative mamboule mambourilor

Spanish

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Etymology

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From American Spanish, likely from Haitian Creole manbo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmambo/ [ˈmãm.bo]
  • Rhymes: -ambo
  • Syllabification: mam‧bo

Noun

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mambo m (plural mambos)

  1. mambo (music)
  2. mambo (dance)

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Swahili

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Noun

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mambo

  1. plural of jambo

Interjection

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mambo

  1. (colloquial) how are you?

Swedish

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Etymology 1

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Probably from Haitian Creole mambo.

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mambo c

  1. (dance) mambo; a type of Latin American dance
Declension
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Declension of mambo 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mambo mambon mambor mamborna
Genitive mambos mambons mambors mambornas

Etymology 2

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Blend of mamma (“mum”) +‎ sambo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (sometimes proscribed) /ˈmambʊ/, /²mamˌbuː/

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mambo c

  1. (somewhat humorous) a person who still lives with their parents
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  • For notes on the pronunciation, see the usage notes under the entry sambo.
Declension
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Declension of mambo 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mambo mambon mambor mamborna
Genitive mambos mambons mambors mambornas
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