mamba

See also: Mamba

English

a green mamba, Dendroaspis viridis

Etymology

From Zulu imamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑm.bɑ/

• Audio (southern England)

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Noun

mamba (plural mambas)

1. Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.

Derived terms

• black mamba
• green mamba

Translations

venomous snake

• Afrikaans: mamba, makoppa
• Basque: manba
• Catalan: mamba f
• Chichewa: nsongo
• Czech: mamba (cs) f
• Dutch: mamba (nl) m
• Finnish: mamba (fi)
• French: mamba (fr) m
• German: Mamba f
• Italian: mamba m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: mamba (pl) f
• Portuguese: mamba (pt) f
• Russian: ма́мба (ru) f (mámba)
• Spanish: mamba f
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: imamba (zu) class 9/10

Further reading

• mamba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dendroaspis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• bamma

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Catalan

Etymology

From Zulu imamba.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmam.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmam.ba/

Noun

mamba f (plural mambes)

1. mamba (venomous snake)

Further reading

• “mamba” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Chichewa

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ᵐba/

Noun

mamba class 6

1. scale(s) (of a fish or snake)

Etymology 2

Cognate to Zulu imamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmá.ᵐba/

Noun

mámba class 9 (plural mámba class 10)

1. spitting cobra

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Czech

Noun

mamba f

1. mamba

Further reading

• mamba in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• mamba in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English mamba or Afrikaans mamba, from Zulu imamba or Swazi mamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑm.baː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: mam‧ba
• Rhymes: -ɑmbaː

Noun

mamba m (plural mamba's)

1. A mamba, venomous snake of the genus Dendroaspis.

Derived terms

• groene mamba
• zwarte mamba

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Finnish

Etymology

From English mamba, from Zulu imamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑmbɑ/, [ˈmɑmbɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑmbɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mam‧ba

Noun

mamba

1. mamba

Declension

Inflection of mamba (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		mamba	mambat
genitive		mamban	mambojen
partitive		mambaa	mamboja
illative		mambaan	mamboihin
		singular	plural
nominative		mamba	mambat
accusative	nom.	mamba	mambat
	gen.	mamban
genitive		mamban	mambojen mambainrare
partitive		mambaa	mamboja
inessive		mambassa	mamboissa
elative		mambasta	mamboista
illative		mambaan	mamboihin
adessive		mamballa	mamboilla
ablative		mambalta	mamboilta
allative		mamballe	mamboille
essive		mambana	mamboina
translative		mambaksi	mamboiksi
instructive		—	mamboin
abessive		mambatta	mamboitta
comitative		—	mamboineen

Possessive forms of mamba (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	mambani	mambamme
2nd person	mambasi	mambanne
3rd person	mambansa

Compounds

• jamesoninmamba
• mustamamba
• vihermamba

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French

Noun

mamba m (plural mambas)

1. mamba

Derived terms

• mamba noir

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English mamba, from Zulu imamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmam.ba/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -amba
• Syllabification: mam‧ba

Noun

mamba f

1. mamba (venomous snake)

Declension

Declension of mamba

	singular	plural
nominative	mamba	mamby
genitive	mamby	mamb
dative	mambie	mambom
accusative	mambę	mamby
instrumental	mambą	mambami
locative	mambie	mambach
vocative	mambo	mamby

Further reading

• mamba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mamba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃.bɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃bɐ
• Hyphenation: mam‧ba

Noun

mamba f (plural mambas)

1. mamba (venomous snake of the genus Dendroaspis)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmamba/ [ˈmãm.ba]
• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: mam‧ba

Noun

mamba f (plural mambas)

1. mamba

Further reading

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

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Swahili

mamba

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Noun

mamba (n class, plural mamba)

1. crocodile (reptile)

   Synonym: (dialectal) ngwena

2. black mamba

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Swazi

Etymology

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Noun

mamba class 1a (plural bómamba class 2a)

1. mamba snake

Inflection

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