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Yes. The word mambo is a Scrabble US word. The word mambo is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word mambo is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

MAMBO,

4-letter words (3 found)

AMBO,AMMO,BOMA,

3-letter words (10 found)

ABO,BAM,BAO,BOA,MAM,MOA,MOB,MOM,OBA,OMA,

2-letter words (9 found)

AB,AM,BA,BO,MA,MM,MO,OB,OM,

You can make 23 words from mambo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of mambo

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Definitions and meaning of mambo

mambo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmæmbəʊ/
  • (General American) enPR: ʹmäm-bō, IPA(key): /ˈmɑmboʊ/
  • Rhymes: -æmbəʊ

Noun

mambo (countable and uncountable, plural mambos or mamboes)

  1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) [from 20th c.]
    • 1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, 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.
    • 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.
  2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. [from 20th c.]

Alternative forms

  • (voodoo priestess) manbo

Derived terms

  • horizontal mambo
  • mambo sauce

Translations

Verb

mambo (third-person singular simple present mambos, present participle mamboing, simple past and past participle mamboed)

  1. (intransitive) To perform this dance.

Translations

See also

  • Mambo (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Mambo (dance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • bammo

Chuabo

Noun

mambo

  1. chief, king

References

  • Shrum, Jeff (2018) Chuwabo - Portuguese Dictionary‎[1], SIL International

Czech

Noun

mambo n

  1. mambo (dance)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • mambo in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

French

Etymology

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑ̃.bo/

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

  1. mambo (music)
  2. mambo (dance)

Further reading

  • “mambo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmam.bo/
  • Rhymes: -ambo
  • Hyphenation: màm‧bo

Noun

mambo m (invariable)

  1. mambo (dance and music)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃bu
  • Hyphenation: mam‧bo

Etymology 1

From Kimbundu mambu.

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

  1. (Angola, colloquial) thing
    Synonym: coisa

Etymology 2

From American & Cuban Spanish mambo.

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

  1. mambo (music)
  2. mambo (dance)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mambo or French mambo.

Noun

mambo n (plural mambouri)

  1. mambo (music)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From American Spanish, likely from Haitian Creole manbo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmambo/ [ˈmãm.bo]
  • Rhymes: -ambo
  • Syllabification: mam‧bo

Noun

mambo m (plural mambos)

  1. mambo (music)
  2. mambo (dance)

Further reading

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

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

mambo

  1. plural of jambo

Interjection

mambo

  1. (colloquial) how are you?

Swedish

Etymology 1

Probably from Haitian Creole mambo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmambʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ambʊ

Noun

mambo c

  1. (dance) mambo; a type of Latin American dance
Declension

Etymology 2

Blend of mamma (“mum”) +‎ sambo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (sometimes proscribed) /ˈmambʊ/, /²mamˌbuː/

Noun

mambo c

  1. (somewhat humorous) a person who still lives with their parents
Usage notes
  • For notes on the pronunciation, see the usage notes under the entry sambo.
Declension
Related terms
  • sambo
  • särbo

References

  • mambo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • mambo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

  • bomma

Source: wiktionary.org