manbo

manbo (plural manbos)

1. Alternative form of mambo (“voodoo priestess”).

Of African origin, perhaps from Kongo màmbu (“conversation, ritual negotiation”), plural of diàmbu (“word”).

• IPA^(key): /mãbo/

manbo

1. (voodoo) priestess

• → English: mambo

• oungan

• “mambo”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.