# bambo
## Chichewa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɓa.ᵐbo/

### Noun

bambo class 1a (plural abambo class 2)
* father
* sir, mister

#### Synonyms

* tate

#### Coordinate terms

* mayi

#### Derived terms

* mzibambo
* bambo wamkazi
* bambo wamkulu
* bambo wamng'ono

## Italian
### Etymology

From a root *ba(m)b- of onomatopoeic or sound-symbolic origin, perhaps in reference to babbling; compare the (etymologically unrelated) Ancient Greek βαμβαίνω (bambaínō, “to stammer”). Possibly inherited from an unattested Latin *bambus, from which Gascon bamborle (“prattle”) and Spanish bambolla (“ostentation”) are also derived. Further compare bombero (“clumsy man”) and Late Latin *bambalō, bamblō (“to swing, sway, shake”), whence Spanish bambalear and others.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbam.bo/
* Rhymes: -ambo
* Hyphenation: bàm‧bo

### Adjective

bambo (feminine bamba, masculine plural bambi, feminine plural bambe)
* (literary, archaic) naive, foolish
    Synonyms: ingenuo, stupido
** 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata quarta – Novella seconda”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎, Bari: Laterza, 1927:Ora, avvenne che una giovane donna bamba e sciocca che chiamata fu madonna Lisetta […] s’andò con altre donne a confessar da questo santo frateNow, it fortuned that a foolish and naive young woman, named Madam Lisetta went, in company of other gentlewomen, to be confessed by this holy friar.

### Noun

bambo m (plural bambi)
* (literary, archaic) child
    Synonym: bambino
* (regional) naive person, foolish person
    Synonym: bamba

#### Derived terms

* bambino
* bambola
* bambolo
* bamboccio

#### Related terms

* bamba
* bimbo

### References

* ↑ Carnoy, Albert J. (1917) “Apophony and Rhyme Words in Vulgar Latin Onomatopoeias”, in American Journal of Philology, volume 38, number 3 (No. 151), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →JSTOR, § 9, page 271 of 265–284: “*bambus”

### Further reading

* bambo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* bomba

## Polish
### Etymology

Ellipsis of Murzynek Bambo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbam.bɔ/
* Rhymes: -ambɔ
* Syllabification: bam‧bo

### Noun

bambo m pers
* (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) coon, nigger, tar baby
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:czarnuch

#### Declension
### Further reading

* bambo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* bambo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Compare Late Latin bambalō, Ancient Greek βαμβαίνω (bambaínō, “to stammer”), from sound-symbolic roots.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɐ̃.bu/
* Rhymes: -ɐ̃bu
* Hyphenation: bam‧bo

### Adjective

bambo (feminine bamba, masculine plural bambos, feminine plural bambas)
* unstable, wobbling or wobbly

### References

* ↑ “bambo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* bambu
* banbu

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /bamˈbo/ [bɐmˈbo]
* Rhymes: -o
* Syllabification: bam‧bo

### Noun

bambó (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜋ᜔ᜊᜓ)
* club; bludgeon; cudgel
    Synonyms: batuta, garote, baston
* beating with a club; hitting with a cudgel

#### Derived terms

* bambuhin
* bumambo
* pagbabambuhin

### Anagrams

* bomba