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English

Etymology

From Zulu imamba.

Noun

mamba (plural mambas)

1. Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.

Derived terms

• black mamba
• green mamba

Translations

Further reading

• mamba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dendroaspis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• bamma

Chichewa

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.?ba/

Noun

mamba 6

1. scale(s) (of a fish or snake)

Etymology 2

Cognate to Zulu imamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?má.?ba/

Noun

mámba 9 (plural mámba 10)

1. spitting cobra

Czech

Noun

mamba f

1. mamba

Further reading

• mamba in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• mamba in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English mamba or Afrikaans mamba, from Zulu imamba or Swazi mamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?m.ba?/
• Hyphenation: mam?ba
• Rhymes: -?mba?

Noun

mamba m (plural mamba's)

1. A mamba, venomous snake of the genus Dendroaspis.

Derived terms

• groene mamba
• zwarte mamba

Finnish

Noun

mamba

1. mamba

Declension

Compounds

• jamesoninmamba
• mustamamba
• vihermamba

French

Noun

mamba m (plural mambas)

1. mamba

Derived terms

• mamba noir

Polish

Etymology

From English mamba, from Zulu imamba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mam.ba/

Noun

mamba f

1. mamba (venomous snake)

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

mamba f (plural mambas)

1. mamba (venomous snake of the genus Dendroaspis)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mamba/, [?mãm.ba]

Noun

mamba f (plural mambas)

1. mamba

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

mamba (n class, plural mamba)

1. crocodile (reptile)

Synonyms

• ngwena (dialectal)

Swazi

Etymology

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Noun

mamba 1a (plural bómamba 2a)

1. mamba snake

Inflection

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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