# mambo
## English
### Etymology

From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmæmbəʊ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) enPR: ʹmäm-bō, IPA: /ˈmɑmboʊ/
* Rhymes: -æmbəʊ

### Noun

mambo (countable and uncountable, plural mambos or mamboes)
* A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) [from 20th c.]
** 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 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.
** May 2018, Kyrah Malika Daniels, Whiteness in the Ancestral Waters: Race, Religion, and Conversion within North American Buddhism and Haitian Vodou, The Journal of Interreligious Studies, Issue 23:
    In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.
* 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
* mambo sauce

#### Translations
### Verb

mambo (third-person singular simple present mambos, present participle mamboing, simple past and past participle mamboed)
* (intransitive) To perform this dance.

#### Translations
### See also

* Mambo (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Mambo (dance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* bammo

## Chuabo
### Noun

mambo
* chief, king

### References

* Shrum, Jeff (2018) Chuwabo - Portuguese Dictionary‎, SIL International

## Czech
### Noun

mambo n
* mambo (dance)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “mambo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

## French
### Etymology

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɑ̃.bo/

### Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)
* mambo (music)
* mambo (dance)

### Further reading

* “mambo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmam.bo/
* Rhymes: -ambo
* Hyphenation: màm‧bo

### Noun

mambo m (invariable)
* mambo (dance and music)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɐ̃.bu/
* Rhymes: -ɐ̃bu
* Hyphenation: mam‧bo

### Etymology 1

From Kimbundu mambu.

#### Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)
* (Angola, colloquial) thing
    Synonym: coisa

### Etymology 2

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo.

#### Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)
* mambo (music)
* mambo (dance)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mambo or French mambo.

### Noun

mambo n (plural mambouri)
* mambo (music)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From American Spanish, likely from Haitian Creole manbo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmambo/ [ˈmãm.bo]
* Rhymes: -ambo
* Syllabification: mam‧bo

### Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)
* mambo (music)
* mambo (dance)

### Further reading

* “mambo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

mambo
* plural of jambo

### Interjection

mambo
* (colloquial) how are you?

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

Probably from Haitian Creole mambo.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmambʊ/
* Rhymes: -ambʊ

#### Noun

mambo c
* (dance) mambo; a type of Latin American dance

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Blend of mamma (“mum”) +‎ sambo.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (sometimes proscribed) /ˈmambʊ/, /²mamˌbuː/

#### Noun

mambo c
* (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.

##### Related terms

* sambo
* särbo

### References

* mambo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* mambo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

### Anagrams

* bomma