sambo

See also: Sambo

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "samwich") + excrescent -b- +‎ -o (colloquialising suffix).

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU)

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Noun

sambo (plural sambos)

1. (Ireland, Australia, slang) A sandwich.

Synonyms

• (Australia, informal) sanger, sango, sammie, sammo
• (UK, informal) sarnie

Etymology 2

From Russian са́мбо (sámbo), abbreviation of самооборо́на/самозащи́та без ору́жия (samooboróna/samozaščíta bez orúžija, “self-defense without weapons”).

Proper noun

sambo

1. A Russian martial art and combat sport.

Translations

martial art

• Armenian: սամբո (hy) (sambo)
• Belarusian: са́мба n (sámba)
• Bulgarian: са́мбо n (sámbo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桑搏 (sāngbó)

• French: sambo (fr) m
• Georgian: სამბო (sambo)
• Hungarian: szambó
• Japanese: サンボ (ja) (sanbo)
• Korean: 삼보 (ko) (sambo)
• Portuguese: sambo m
• Russian: са́мбо (ru) n (sámbo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самбо m

  Roman: sambo (sh) n

• Ukrainian: са́мбо n (sámbo)
• Vietnamese: xam-bô, xăm bô

Anagrams

• Bosma, MOABs, MOBAs, ambos, bomas

Danish

Etymology

From sam- (“together”) +‎ bo (“live, reside”).

Adjective

sambo

1. (botany) monoecious

Noun

sambo c (singular definite samboen, plural indefinite samboer)

1. roommate

Inflection

Declension of sambo

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sambo	samboen	samboer	samboerne
genitive	sambos	samboens	samboers	samboernes

Synonyms

• kontubernal
• slof
• roomie
• roommate

Esperanto

Etymology

Originally from Portuguese, though reinforced by several other languages.

Noun

sambo (accusative singular sambon, plural samboj, accusative plural sambojn)

1. samba

Italian

Etymology

From Russian са́мбо (sámbo), abbreviation of самооборо́на/самозащи́та без ору́жия (samooboróna/samozaščíta bez orúžija, “self-defense without weapons”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsam.bo/
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Hyphenation: sàm‧bo

Noun

sambo m (uncountable)

1. Sambo (Russian martial art)

Further reading

• sambo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Malagasy

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

sambo

1. boat

Norwegian

Etymology

From sam- (“together”) +‎ bo (“live, reside”).

Noun

sambo

1. roommate, typically with a romantic connotation

Inflection

Inflection of sambo

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɐ̃.bu/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃bu
• Hyphenation: sam‧bo

Etymology 1

Noun

sambo m (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) Sambo (a Russian martial art)

Etymology 2

Verb

sambo

1. first-person singular present indicative of sambar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish zambo.

Noun

sambo m (uncountable)

1. Zambo

Declension

declension of sambo (singular only)

	singular
m gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sambo	samboul
genitive/dative	(unui) sambo	samboului
vocative	samboule

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsambo/ [ˈsãm.bo]
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Syllabification: sam‧bo

Etymology 1

Internationalism, from Russian са́мбо (sámbo).

Noun

sambo m (uncountable)

1. Sambo (a Russian martial art)

   Hypernym: deporte de combate

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Quechua sambu.

Noun

sambo m (plural sambos)

1. (Ecuador) kind of pumpkin

   Hypernym: calabaza

Further reading

• “sambo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology 1

• (noun) From sam- (“co-”) +‎ -bo (“habitant”).
• (verb) From sam- (“co-”) +‎ bo (“to live”), compare sammanbo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (noun, sometimes proscribed) /ˈsambʊ/

  • Audio

    (file)

• IPA^(key): (verb, noun) /²samˌbuː/

Noun

sambo c

1. partner with whom one lives, usually not in a common law marriage relationship; cohabitant

Usage notes

The pronunciation of this word was originally with accent 2, secondary stress and a long final vowel, i.e. /²samˌbuː/, which is in line with other compounds with -bo, e.g. öbo (“islander”), stadsbo (“city dweller”). For most speakers, the pronunciation has, however, shifted to accent 1 with a short final vowel without secondary stress, i.e. /ˈsambʊ/, probably due to the influence from words like hambo (“type of folk dance”) and loanwords ending in -o, which commonly receive accent 1, e.g. mambo (“mambo, type of dance”), sambo (“Sambo”), tango, mango, etc. This accent 1 pronunciation also applies to other words coined with sambo in mind, e.g. särbo (“partner one does not live together with”), mambo (“person who lives with their mother”).

This causes uncertainty in the declension of this word. Whereas common gender words with a long final /uː/ are regularly pluralized with -r, i.e. sko > skor, öbo > öbor, common gender words with a final /ʊ/ do not have a native pluralization. For this reason, many speakers colloquially treat sambo as a loanword and pluralize the word with a foreign -s plural marker, i.e. sambos, or with a double plural marker -sar, i.e. sambosar.

This pronunciation and declension are usually proscribed, and dictionaries like SAOL and Svensk ordbok recommend using the accent 2 pronunciation with an -r plural in line with words like öbo, which they likewise recommend for words like särbo and mambo.

Declension

Declension of sambo
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sambo	sambon	sambor	samborna
Genitive	sambos	sambons	sambors	sambornas

Declension of sambo (colloquial, proscribed)
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sambo	sambon	sambos, sambosar	sambosarna
Genitive	sambos	sambons	sambos, sambosars	sambosarnas

Related terms

• särbo
• mambo

Verb

sambo (present sambor, preterite sambodde, supine sambott, imperative sambo)

1. to cohabit

Conjugation

Conjugation of sambo (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	sambo		—
Supine	sambott		—
Imperative	sambo		—
Imper. plural1	sambon		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	sambor	sambodde	—	—
Ind. plural1	sambo	sambodde	—	—
Subjunctive2	sambo	sambodde	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	samboende
Past participle	—
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Etymology 2

From Spanish zambo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsambʊ/
• Rhymes: -ambʊ

Noun

sambo c

1. (archaic, derogatory) Sambo; the offspring of a Native American and a person of African descent

Declension

Declension of sambo
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sambo	sambon	sambor	samborna
Genitive	sambos	sambons	sambors	sambornas

References

• sambo in Svensk ordbok (SO)