mambo

Etymology
From (ultimately from ), in later senses via Cuban.

Noun

 * 1) A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
 * 2) * 1995,, 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
 * 1) A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

Alternative forms

 * manbo

Translations

 * Arabic: مَامْبُو
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 曼波
 * Hokkien: 曼波
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Mambo
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: मम्बो, मैम्बो
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: マンボ
 * Korean: 맘보
 * Marathi: माम्बो
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: แมมโบ
 * Urdu: میمبو

Verb

 * 1)  To perform this dance.

Noun

 * 1) chief, king

Noun

 * 1)  dance

Etymology
From American & Cuban.

Noun

 * 1)  music
 * 2)  dance

Etymology
From American & Cuban.

Noun

 * 1)  (dance and music)

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  thing

Etymology 2
From American & Cuban.

Noun

 * 1)  music
 * 2)  dance

Etymology
or.

Noun

 * 1)  music

Etymology
From American Spanish, likely from.

Noun

 * 1)  music
 * 2)  dance

Interjection

 * 1)  how are you?

Etymology 1
Probably from.

Noun

 * 1)  ; a type of Latin American dance

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1)  a person who still lives with their parents

Usage notes

 * For notes on the pronunciation, see the usage notes under the entry.