zambo

zambo

1. neuter of zambu

zambo

1. tadpole

Borrowed from Spanish zambo (which see), of uncertain etymology.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɑm.boː/

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• Hyphenation: zam‧bo

zambo m (plural zambo's)

1. Zambo, Afro-Indian, someone of half African and half indigenous American parentage

From Spanish zambo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɑmbo/, [ˈzɑ̝mbo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑmbo
• Hyphenation^(key): zam‧bo

zambo

1. Zambo (person with African and Native American/indigenous heritage; Afro-Indian)

• “zambo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

Borrowed from Spanish zambo.

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zam.bo/
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Hyphenation: zàm‧bo

zambo m (invariable)

1. Zambo (Afro-Indian)

   Synonym: cafuso

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

• zomba

Uncertain, but probably from an alteration of Vulgar Latin *strambus (“squinting, crosseyed, crooked, distorted”), from Latin strabus, from Ancient Greek στραβός (strabós).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθambo/ [ˈθãm.bo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsambo/ [ˈsãm.bo]
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Syllabification: zam‧bo

zambo (feminine zamba, masculine plural zambos, feminine plural zambas)

1. bowlegged, bandy-legged
2. (Latin America) Zambo (one of mixed African and Native American ancestry)

zambo m (plural zambos, feminine zamba, feminine plural zambas)

1. (Latin America) Zambo

• “zambo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10