different between mambo vs samba

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?mb?/

Noun

samba (countable and uncountable, plural sambas)

1. A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
2. A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.

Derived terms

• samba whistle

Translations

Verb

samba (third-person singular simple present sambas, present participle sambaing, simple past and past participle sambaed)

1. To dance the samba.

Further reading

• samba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ambas, bamas

Czech

Etymology

From Portuguese samba.

Noun

samba f

1. samba (dance)

Further reading

• samba in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• samba in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Estonian

Noun

samba

1. genitive singular of sammas

Finnish

Etymology

From Portuguese samba.

Noun

samba

1. samba

Declension

French

Etymology

From Portuguese samba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.ba/

Noun

samba m (plural sambas)

1. samba (dance)

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese samba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sam.ba/
• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: sàm?ba

Noun

samba f (plural sambe)

1. samba (dance)

References

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

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek *???????? (*sámbaton), from Ancient Greek ???????? (sábbaton), borrowed from Aramaic ???????????. Cognates include Greek ??????? (Sávvato).

Noun

samba n

1. Saturday

Polish

Etymology

From Portuguese samba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sam.ba/

Noun

samba f

1. samba

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Probably of Bantu origin, possibly Kongo semba (“belly-bump”), name of a dance. More at Samba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??.b?/

Noun

samba m (plural sambas)

1. samba (Brazilian genre of music and dance)

Verb

samba

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of sambar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of sambar

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “samba”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

South Slavey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.?pa/

Noun

samba

1. trout

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 64

Spanish

Etymology

From Portuguese samba.

Noun

samba f (plural sambas)

1. samba

Swedish

Etymology

From Portuguese samba.

Noun

samba c

1. samba

Declension

Tagalog

Etymology

From Malay sembah, ultimately from Old Khmer sambah (compare Khmer sampeah (sampeah)).

Verb

samba

1. worship