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"expansion": "Spanish mambo (“dance”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mambos",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "mamboing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "mamboed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "mamboed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "mambo (third-person singular simple present mambos, present participle mamboing, simple past and past participle mamboed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To perform this dance."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To perform this dance."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmæmbəʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɑmboʊ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æmbəʊ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mambo.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mambo.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mambo.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mambo.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mambo.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "ʹmäm-bō",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"mambo"
],
"word": "mambo"
}
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