name
Meaning 1
A nickname from the given name Samuel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Sambo
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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US: /ˈsæmboʊ/
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CMU ARPABET: S AE1 M B OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A nickname from the given name Samantha.
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noun
Meaning 3
A black person, especially one who is accommodating or servile towards whites; an Uncle Tom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
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noun
Meaning 4
A person of three quarters African descent and one quarter Caucasian descent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, offensive
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noun
Meaning 5
A sandwich.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Ireland, slang
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sanger, sango, sammie, sammo, sarnie
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noun
Meaning 6
A Russian martial art and combat sport.
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Usage: uncountable
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History
Etymology
From the given names.
Borrowed from Spanish zambo.
Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "samwich") + excrescent -b- + -o (colloquializing suffix).
From Russian са́мбо (sámbo), abbreviation of самооборо́на/самозащи́та без ору́жия (samooboróna/samozaščíta bez orúžija, “self-defense without weapons”).
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: սամբո (sambo) — martial art
- Belarusian: са́мба (sámba) — martial art
- Bulgarian: са́мбо (sámbo) — martial art
- Chinese Mandarin: 桑搏 (sāngbó) — martial art
- Finnish: sambo — martial art
- French: sambo — martial art
- Georgian: სამბო (sambo) — martial art
- Hungarian: szambó — martial art
- Japanese: サンボ (sanbo) — martial art
- Korean: 삼보 (sambo) — martial art
- Polish: sambo — martial art
- Portuguese: sambo — martial art
- Russian: са́мбо (sámbo) — martial art
- Serbo-Croatian: самбо — martial art
- Serbo-Croatian: sambo — martial art
- Ukrainian: са́мбо (sámbo) — martial art
- Vietnamese: xam-bô — martial art
- Vietnamese: xăm bô — martial art