mambo

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Pronunciation

• (North America) enPR: ʹmäm-bō, IPA: /ˈmɑmboʊ/
• (British) IPA: /ˈmæmbəʊ/

Noun

mambo

1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) [from 20th c.]
   • 1985, Wade Davis (anthropologist), The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 47:

     The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter.

   • 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.

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.]

Translations

• French: mambo
• German: Mambo
• Italian: mambo
• Portuguese: mambo
• Russian: ма́мбо
• Spanish: mambo

Verb

mambo (mambos, present participle mamboing; past and past participle mamboed)

1. (intransitive) To perform this dance.

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