Do you think you can dance the mambo?
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Mambo
//ˈmæmbəʊ//
Synonyms for "mambo" (4 found)
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2 entriesis a
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5 entriesTranslations
21 translations across 20 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَامْبُو noun (Latin American music genre)
Armenian
1 entries- մամբո noun (Latin American music genre)
Chinese
1 entries- 曼波 noun (Latin American music genre)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 曼波 noun (Latin American music genre)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 曼波 noun (Latin American music genre)
Finnish
1 entries- mambo noun (Latin American music genre)
French
1 entries- mambo noun (Latin American music genre)
German
1 entries- Mambo noun (Latin American music genre)
Greek
1 entries- μάμπο noun (Latin American music genre)
Hindi
2 entries- मम्बो noun (Latin American music genre)
- मैम्बो noun (Latin American music genre)
Italian
1 entries- mambo noun (Latin American music genre)
Japanese
1 entries- マンボ noun (Latin American music genre)
Korean
1 entries- 맘보 noun (Latin American music genre)
Marathi
1 entries- माम्बो noun (Latin American music genre)
Portuguese
1 entries- mambo noun (Latin American music genre)
Russian
1 entries- ма́мбо noun (Latin American music genre)
Spanish
1 entries- mambo noun (Latin American music genre)
Swedish
1 entries- mambo noun (Latin American music genre)
Thai
1 entries- แมมโบ noun (Latin American music genre)
Urdu
1 entries- میمبو noun (Latin American music genre)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.
Source: wiktionary
In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.
Source: wiktionary
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