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English

Etymology

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "samwich") + excrescent -b- +? -o (colloquialising suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

sambo (plural sambos)

1. (Ireland, Australia, slang) A sandwich.

Synonyms

• (Australia, informal) sanger, sango, sammie, sammo
• (UK, informal) sarnie

Anagrams

• Bosma, MOABs, MOBAs, ambos, bomas

Danish

Etymology

From sam- (“together”) +? bo (“live, reside”).

Adjective

sambo

1. (botany) monoecious

Noun

sambo c (singular definite samboen, plural indefinite samboer)

1. roommate

Inflection

Synonyms

• kontubernal
• slof
• roomie
• roommate

Esperanto

Etymology

Originally from Portuguese, though reinforced by several other languages.

Noun

sambo (accusative singular sambon, plural samboj, accusative plural sambojn)

1. samba

Norwegian

Etymology

From sam- (“together”) +? bo (“live, reside”).

Noun

sambo

1. roommate, typically with a romantic connotation

Inflection

Portuguese

Noun

sambo m (uncountable)

1. Sambo (a Russian martial art)

Verb

sambo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of sambar

Spanish

Noun

sambo m (uncountable)

1. Sambo (a Russian martial art)

Hypernyms

• deporte de combate

Swedish

Etymology 1

• (noun) From sam- (“co-”) +? -bo (“habitant”).
• (verb) From sam- (“co-”) +? bo (“to live”), compare sammanbo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (noun, sometimes proscribed) /?samb?/
• IPA^(key): (verb, noun) /²sam?bu?/

Noun

sambo c

1. partner with whom one lives, usually not in a common law marriage relationship; cohabitant

Usage notes

The pronunciation of this word was originally with accent 2, secondary stress and a long final vowel, i.e. /²sam?bu?/, which is in line with other compounds with -bo, e.g. öbo (“islander”), stadsbo (“city dweller”). For most speakers, the pronunciation has, however, shifted to accent 1 with a short final vowel without secondary stress, i.e. /?samb?/, probably due to the influence from words like hambo (“type of folk dance”) and loanwords ending in -o, which commonly receive accent 1, e.g. mambo (“mambo, type of dance”), sambo (“Sambo”), tango, mango, etc. This accent 1 pronunciation also applies to other words coined with sambo in mind, e.g. särbo (“partner one does not live together with”), mambo (“person who lives with their mother”).

This causes uncertainty in the declension of this word. Whereas common gender words with a long final /u?/ are regularly pluralized with -r, i.e. sko > skor, öbo > öbor, common gender words with a final /?/ do not have a native pluralization. For this reason, many speakers colloquially treat sambo as a loanword and pluralize the word with a foreign -s plural marker, i.e. sambos, or with a double plural marker -sar, i.e. sambosar.

This pronunciation and declension are usually proscribed, and dictionaries like SAOL and Svensk ordbok recommend using the accent 2 pronunciation with an -r plural in line with words like öbo, which they likewise recommend for words like särbo and mambo.

Declension

Related terms

• särbo
• mambo

Verb

sambo (present sambor, preterite sambodde, supine sambott, imperative sambo)

1. to cohabit

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Spanish zambo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?samb?/
• Rhymes: -amb?

Noun

sambo c

1. (archaic, derogatory) Sambo; the offspring of a Native American and a person of African descent

Declension

References

• sambo in Svensk ordbok (SO)

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