bambo

• IPA^(key): /ˈɓa.ᵐbo/

bambo class 1a (plural abambo class 2)

1. father
2. sir, mister

• tate

• mayi

• mzibambo
• bambo wamkazi
• bambo wamkulu
• bambo wamng'ono

From a root *bamb- of onomatopoeic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbam.bo/
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Hyphenation: bàm‧bo

bambo (feminine bamba, masculine plural bambi, feminine plural bambe)

1. (literary, archaic) naive, foolish

   Synonyms: ingenuo, stupido

   • 14^th century, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata quarta – Novella seconda”, in Decameron:

     Ora, avvenne che una giovane donna bamba e sciocca che chiamata fu madonna Lisetta […] s’andò con altre donne a confessar da questo santo frate

     Now, it fortuned that a foolish and naive young woman, named Madam Lisetta went, in company of other gentlewomen, to be confessed by this holy friar.

bambo m (plural bambi)

1. (literary, archaic) child

   Synonym: bambino

2. (regional) naive person, foolish person

   Synonym: bamba

• bambino

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

• bomba

Inherited from Late Latin bambalo, from Ancient Greek βαμβαίνω (bambaínō, “to stammer”).[1]

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃bu
• Hyphenation: bam‧bo

bambo (feminine bamba, masculine plural bambos, feminine plural bambas)

1. unstable, wobbling or wobbly

• bambu
• banbu

• Hyphenation: bam‧bo
• IPA^(key): /bamˈbo/, [bɐmˈbo]

bambó

1. club; bludgeon; cudgel

   Synonyms: batuta, garote, baston

2. beating with a club; hitting with a cudgel