Meaning

2 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)

  2. (countable, uncountable)A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

    Mambo

    ма́мбоmámbo

    a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Do you think you can dance the mambo?

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
Latin American music genre:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Latin American music genre:

Origin

From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)),

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

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Forms

plural: mambos / mamboes
Singularmambo
Pluralmambos / mamboes

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedhorizontal mambo

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mamaB2mambamammaB2mammalmammoth
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