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English

Etymology 1

Amharic ??? (?ämba)

Noun

amba (plural ambas)

1. A characteristic landform in Ethiopia: a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of a settlement.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ???????? (?amba) and Hebrew ?????; ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (?mra).

Noun

amba (uncountable)

1. A tangy mango pickle used as a condiment in the Middle East.

Anagrams

• AABM, AMAB, BAAM, BMAA, Bama, MAAB, bama

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am.ba?/

Noun

amba

1. lowing or mooing sound of cattle

Verb

amba

1. to moo, low as of cattle

Synonyms

• inga

Hiligaynon

Verb

ámba

1. chant, sing

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ampa/

  Rhymes: -ampa

Noun

amba f (genitive singular ömbu, nominative plural ömbur)

1. Alternative form of amaba

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am.ba/
• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: àm?ba

Etymology 1

From Amharic ??? (?ämba).

Noun

amba f (plural ambe)

1. (geology) A characteristic landform in Ethiopia, consisting of a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain.

Etymology 2

Noun

amba f (plural ambe)

1. (chiefly in the plural) circumlocution, periphrasis

   Synonyms: (formal) circonlocuzione, (colloquial) giro di parole, perifrasi

References

• amba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• amba in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti

Kanufi

Noun

amba

1. plural of uwa

References

• Roger Blench, The Anib (=Kanufi) language of Central Nigeria and its affinities, page 3, 2011

Kikuyu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bàmba (“to stretch and peg a hide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ba/

Verb

amba (infinitive kwamba)

1. to peg (out), to pitch
2. to stretch out
3. to do first

Derived terms

• kwambata

• mwambato 3

• kwamb?r?ria

• k?amb?r?ria 7
• mwamb?r?rio 3

• rwambo 11

• rwambo r?mwe r?tiambaga ndarwa

References

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
• “amba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 7. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit ???? (?mra).

Noun

amba m

1. the mango tree, Magifera indica

Declension

Noun

amba n

1. the mango fruit

Declension

Related terms

• ambaphala (“mango fruit”)

References

• “amba”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Etymology 2

Noun

amba

1. vocative singular of amb? (“mummy”)

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

amba-

1. which; who (relative pronoun)

Inflection

Verb

-amba (infinitive kwamba)

1. to say, to explain

Conjugation

Derived terms

• chambo
• jambo

Venda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Verb

amba

1. to speak

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Verb

-amba

1. to be sarcastic

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “amba”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “amba (6.6-3)”

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æm.b??/
• Rhymes: -æmb??

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin amb?, from Ancient Greek ????? (ámb?n).

Noun

ambo (plural ambos or ambones)

1. A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
2. (Roman Catholicism) A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.

Related terms

• ambon, lectern, podium, pulpit

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening of ambulance +? -o.

Noun

ambo (plural ambos)

1. (informal) An ambulance driver.
2. (informal) An ambulance.

Translations

Anagrams

• MOAB, MOBA, Mabo, Moab, boma, moAb

Asi

Noun

ambò

1. mouse; rat

Buginese

Noun

ambo

1. father

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am.bo/
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Hyphenation: àm?bo

Etymology 1

From Latin amb?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?m?b?i (“round about, around”).

Adjective

ambo (usually invariable, rare masculine plural ambi, rare feminine plural ambe)

1. (literary) both

   Synonyms: (literary) ambedue, (literary, obsolete) amendue, entrambi

Etymology 2

Noun use of the above adjective.

Noun

ambo m (plural ambi)

1. double (in various games)

Anagrams

• boma

References

• ambo¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• ambo² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?m?b?i (“round about, around”), proposed by some from *h?n?t-b?i (“from both sides”), one case form in -b?i from the root noun *h?ent- (“front, front side”), whence ante. Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (amphí, “both, facing”) or ???? (amph?, “both, facing”), Gaulish ambi-, Proto-Germanic *umbi, Sanskrit ??? (ubháu, “both, the two”), ??? (abhí, “towards, over, upon”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?am.bo?/, [?ämbo?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?am.bo/, [??mb?]

Determiner

amb? m (feminine ambae, neuter amb?)

1. both (of objects occurring in pairs)

   Coordinate terms: duo, uterque

Declension

Irregular adjective, plural only.

Descendants

See also

• duo
• uterque
• binus

References

• ambo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ambo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ambo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ambo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

Minangkabau

Pronoun

ambo

1. first person singular; I

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

ambo

1. nominative singular of amba (“mango tree”)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin amb?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ambo/, [?ãm.bo]

Noun

ambo m (plural ambos)

1. (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) suit

Related terms

• ambos

Further reading

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