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English

Noun

ambon (plural ambons)

1. Alternative form of ambo

Anagrams

• Boman, Mabon, Nambo

French

Pronunciation

Noun

ambon m (plural ambons)

1. (architecture) ambon

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ambun, from Proto-Austronesian *ambun.

Noun

ambon

1. drizzle, light rain

Derived terms

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.