mambo
A voodoo priestessA voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
» Do you think you can dance the mambo?
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2 senses(countable, uncountable)A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
(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 sentencesDo you think you can dance the mambo?
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
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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 / mamboesWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.