"mambo" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmæmbəʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmɑmboʊ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mambo.wav Forms: mambos [plural], mamboes [plural]
enPR: ʹmäm-bō [General-American] Rhymes: -æmbəʊ Etymology: From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ht|manbo||t=voodoo priestess}} Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”), {{der|en|yo|mambo||t=to talk}} Yoruba mambo (“to talk”), {{der|en|es|mambo||t=dance}} Spanish mambo (“dance”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|mamboes}} mambo (countable and uncountable, plural mambos or mamboes)
  1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Voodoo Synonyms (voodoo priestess): manbo
    Sense id: en-mambo-en-noun-oxh36EJz Disambiguation of Voodoo: 84 10 6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 52 5 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 42 49 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 43 52 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 42 52 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 42 52 5 Disambiguation of 'voodoo priestess': 93 7
  2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Dances, Musical genres Translations (Latin American music genre): مَامْبُو (mambū) [masculine] (Arabic), մամբո (mambo) (Armenian), 曼波 (bàn-boh) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 曼波 (maan⁶ po¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 曼波 (mànbō) (Chinese Mandarin), mambo (Finnish), mambo [masculine] (French), Mambo [masculine] (German), μάμπο (mámpo) [neuter] (Greek), मम्बो (mambo) (Hindi), मैम्बो (maimbo) (Hindi), mambo [masculine] (Italian), マンボ (manbo) (Japanese), 맘보 (mambo) (Korean), माम्बो (māmbo) [neuter] (Marathi), mambo [masculine] (Portuguese), ма́мбо (mámbo) [neuter] (Russian), mambo [masculine] (Spanish), mambo [common-gender] (Swedish), แมมโบ (maem-boh) (Thai), میمبو (maimbo) (Urdu)
    Sense id: en-mambo-en-noun-OeqnIFCo Disambiguation of Dances: 28 53 19 Disambiguation of Musical genres: 21 79 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hokkien translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Marathi translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Thai translations, Terms with Urdu translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 52 5 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 42 49 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 16 15 9 10 1 0 0 14 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 5 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 40 55 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 43 52 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 38 57 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 41 53 6 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 39 49 12 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 39 54 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 39 49 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 38 53 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Hokkien translations: 40 55 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 40 53 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 40 53 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 42 52 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 37 58 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Marathi translations: 40 55 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 42 53 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 40 53 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 38 54 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 42 52 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Thai translations: 42 53 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Urdu translations: 39 56 5 Disambiguation of 'Latin American music genre': 19 81
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: horizontal mambo, mambo sauce

Verb

IPA: /ˈmæmbəʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmɑmboʊ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mambo.wav Forms: mambos [present, singular, third-person], mamboing [participle, present], mamboed [participle, past], mamboed [past]
enPR: ʹmäm-bō [General-American] Rhymes: -æmbəʊ Etymology: From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ht|manbo||t=voodoo priestess}} Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”), {{der|en|yo|mambo||t=to talk}} Yoruba mambo (“to talk”), {{der|en|es|mambo||t=dance}} Spanish mambo (“dance”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} mambo (third-person singular simple present mambos, present participle mamboing, simple past and past participle mamboed)
  1. (intransitive) To perform this dance. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-mambo-en-verb-2HagDhSD

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 219",
          "text": "The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction."
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou."
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          "word": "แมมโบ"
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      "word": "մամբո"
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      "word": "맘보"
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      "word": "แมมโบ"
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        "(intransitive) To perform this dance."
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