mambo

See also: Mambo

English

Etymology

From Haitian Creole mambo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish mambo (“dance”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ʹmäm-bō, IPA^(key): /ˈmɑmboʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmæmbəʊ/

Noun

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, p. 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.

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.]

Alternative forms

• (voodoo priestess) manbo

Derived terms

• horizontal mambo

Translations

Latin American music genre

• Arabic: مَامْبُو m (mambū)
• Armenian: մամբո (hy) (mambo)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 曼波 (maan⁶ po¹)

  Mandarin: 曼波 (mànbō)

  Min Nan: 曼波 (bàn-boh)

• French: mambo (fr) m
• German: Mambo m
• Greek: μάμπο (el) n (mámpo)
• Hindi: मम्बो (mambo), मैम्बो (maimbo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: mambo m
• Japanese: マンボ (manbo)
• Korean: 맘보 (mambo)
• Marathi: माम्बो n (māmbo)
• Portuguese: mambo (pt) m
• Russian: ма́мбо (ru) n (mámbo)
• Spanish: mambo (es) m
• Swedish: mambo (sv) c
• Thai: แมมโบ (maem-boh)
• Urdu: میمبو (maimbo)

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To perform this dance.

Translations

to dance

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• Mambo (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mambo (dance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bammo

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Czech

Noun

mambo n

1. mambo (dance)

Further reading

• Template:R:KNLA

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French

Etymology

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.bo/

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

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

Further reading

• “mambo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo

Noun

mambo m (uncountable)

1. mambo (dance and music)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From American Spanish, likely from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Haitian Creole, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Yoruba mambo (“to talk”).

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

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

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Swahili

Noun

mambo

1. plural of jambo

Interjection

mambo

1. (colloquial) how are you?

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Swedish

Etymology 1

Probably from Haitian Creole mambo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmambʊ/
• Rhymes: -ambʊ

Noun

mambo c

1. (dance) mambo; a type of Latin American dance

Declension

Declension of mambo
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mambo	mambon	mambor	mamborna
Genitive	mambos	mambons	mambors	mambornas

Etymology 2

Blend of mamma (“mum”) +‎ sambo.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mambo c

1. (somewhat humorous) a person who still lives with their parents

Usage notes

• For notes on the pronunciation, see the usage notes under the entry sambo.

Declension

Declension of mambo
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mambo	mambon	mambor	mamborna
Genitive	mambos	mambons	mambors	mambornas

Related terms

• sambo
• särbo

References

• mambo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mambo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• bomma