zambo

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/, [ˈzɑmbo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑmbo
• Syllabification^(key): zam‧bo

zambo

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

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) /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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014