noun
Meaning 1
A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
mambo
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmæmbəʊ/
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General-American: ʹmäm-bō
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General-American: /ˈmɑmboʊ/
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rhymes with -æmbəʊ
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CMU ARPABET: M AA1 M B OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 3
To perform this dance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
Meaning 4
a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dancing, dance, terpsichore, saltation
verb
Meaning 5
dance a mambo
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
History
Etymology
From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَامْبُو (mambū) — Latin American music genre
- Armenian: մամբո (mambo) — Latin American music genre
- Chinese Cantonese: 曼波 (maan6 po1) — Latin American music genre
- Chinese: 曼波 (bàn-boh) — Latin American music genre
- Chinese Mandarin: 曼波 (mànbō) — Latin American music genre
- Finnish: mambo — Latin American music genre
- French: mambo — Latin American music genre
- German: Mambo — Latin American music genre
- Greek: μάμπο (mámpo) — Latin American music genre
- Hindi: मम्बो (mambo) — Latin American music genre
- Hindi: मैम्बो (maimbo) — Latin American music genre
- Italian: mambo — Latin American music genre
- Japanese: マンボ (manbo) — Latin American music genre
- Korean: 맘보 (mambo) — Latin American music genre
- Marathi: माम्बो (māmbo) — Latin American music genre
- Portuguese: mambo — Latin American music genre
- Russian: ма́мбо (mámbo) — Latin American music genre
- Spanish: mambo — Latin American music genre
- Swedish: mambo — Latin American music genre
- Thai: แมมโบ (maem-boh) — Latin American music genre
- Urdu: میمبو (maimbo) — Latin American music genre
- Finnish: mambota — to dance
- Finnish: tanssia mamboa — to dance