different between ambo vs mambo

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.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (North America) enPR: ?mäm-b?, IPA^(key): /?m?mbo?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæmb??/

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

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To perform this dance.

Translations

See also

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

Anagrams

• bammo

Czech

Noun

mambo n

1. mambo (dance)

Further reading

• mambo in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

French

Etymology

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??.bo/

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

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

Further reading

• “mambo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo

Noun

mambo m (invariable)

1. mambo (dance and music)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Kimbundu mambu.

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

1. (Angola, colloquial) thing

   Synonym: coisa

Etymology 2

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

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

Spanish

Etymology

From American Spanish, likely from Haitian Creole [Term?], ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”).

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

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

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

mambo

1. plural of jambo

Interjection

mambo

1. (colloquial) how are you?

Swedish

Etymology 1

Probably from Haitian Creole mambo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mamb?/
• Rhymes: -amb?

Noun

mambo c

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

Declension

Etymology 2

Blend of mamma (“mum”) +? sambo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (sometimes proscribed) /?mamb?/, /²mam?bu?/

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

Related terms

• sambo
• särbo

References

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

Anagrams

• bomma