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ambo mabo abmo bamo mbao bmao amob maob aomb oamb moab omab abom baom aobm oabm boam obam mboa bmoa moba omba boma obma

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Definitions and meaning of ambo

ambo

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bəʊ/
• Rhymes: -æmbəʊ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

Noun

ambo (plural ambos or ambones)

1. A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
2. (Roman Catholicism) A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.

Related terms

• ambon, lectern, podium, pulpit

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening of ambulance +‎ -o.

Noun

ambo (plural ambos)

1. (informal) An ambulance driver.
2. (informal) An ambulance.
   • 2004 Dec. 19, David Simon & al., "Mission Accomplished", The Wire, Season 3, Episode 12, 00:31:54:

     Rawls: I don't want the fuckin' reporters seeing any ambos. Shit.

Translations

Anagrams

• MOAB, MOBA, Mabo, Moab, boma, moAb

Asi

Noun

ambò

1. mouse; rat

Buginese

Noun

ambo

1. father

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈam.bo/
• Rhymes: -bo
• Hyphenation: am‧bo

Etymology 1

Noun

ambo (plural ambo-ambo, first-person possessive amboku, second-person possessive ambomu, third-person possessive ambonya)

1. Alternative spelling of hamba

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

Noun

ambo (plural ambo-ambo, first-person possessive amboku, second-person possessive ambomu, third-person possessive ambonya)

1. (Catholicism) ambo: stationary podium used for readings and homilies.

   Hypernym: mimbar

Further reading

• “ambo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈam.bo/
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Hyphenation: àm‧bo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ambō.

Determiner

ambo (usually invariable, rare masculine plural ambi, rare feminine plural ambe)

1. (literary) both

   Synonyms: ambedue, (literary, obsolete) amendue, entrambi

Etymology 2

Noun use of the above determiner.

Noun

ambo m (plural ambi)

1. double (in various games)

Further reading

• ambo¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• ambo² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• boma

Javanese

Romanization

ambo

1. Romanization of ꦲꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦴ

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.boː/, [ˈämboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.bo/, [ˈämbo]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *amβō, cognate to Ancient Greek ἄμφω (ámphō, “both”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂n̥tbʰóh₁ (“both”), proposed to be from *h₂n̥t-bʰi (“from both sides”), one case form in -bʰi from the root noun *h₂ent- (“front, front side”), whence ante.

Related to ambi-, from Latin *amβi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”), cognate to Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “around”), Gaulish ambi-, Proto-Germanic *umbi, Sanskrit उभौ (ubháu, “both, the two”), अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”).

Determiner

ambō m (feminine ambae, neuter ambō)

1. both (of objects occurring in pairs)

   Coordinate terms: duo, uterque

Declension

Irregular adjective, plural only.

(The irregular declension is a vestige of Latin's dual, defunct in the extant literature.)

Descendants

See also

• duo
• uterque
• binus

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).

Noun

ambō m

1. (Medieval Latin) pulpit, lectern

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: ambo
• Indonesian: ambo
• Italian: ambone
  • Polish: ambona

References

Further reading

• “ambo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ambo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ambo - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• ambo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ambo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Minangkabau

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ambo

1. first person singular; I

Synonyms

awak, den

Occitan

Alternative forms

• ab (Gard)
• amb (Languedoc)
• ambé (Provençal)
• dab (Gascony)
• damb (Gascony)
• embé (Provençal)

Adverb

ambo (Vivaro-alpine)

1. (accompaniment) with

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit हम्भाय (hambhāya, “low”), compare to Sanskrit हंबतारा (haṃbatārā, “good man”). Attested in the Old Javanese prose of Tantri Kaḍiri.

Noun

ambo

1. escort (who walks beside a horse, etc.)

Related terms

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦲꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦴ (ambo)

Further reading

• "ambo" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

ambo

1. nominative singular of amba (“mango tree”)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ambō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈambo/ [ˈãm.bo]
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Syllabification: am‧bo

Noun

ambo m (plural ambos)

1. (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) suit

Related terms

Further reading

• “ambo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014