sambo

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "samwich") + excrescent -b- +‎ -o (colloquializing suffix).

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sambo (plural sambos)

1. (Ireland, Australia, slang) A sandwich.

• (Australia, informal) sanger, sango, sammie, sammo
• (UK, informal) sarnie

From Russian са́мбо (sámbo), abbreviation of самооборо́на/самозащи́та без ору́жия (samooboróna/samozaščíta bez orúžija, “self-defense without weapons”).

sambo (uncountable)

1. A Russian martial art and combat sport.

• Bosma, MOABs, MOBAs, ambos, bomas

From sam- (“together”) +‎ bo (“live, reside”).

sambo

1. (botany) monoecious

sambo c (singular definite samboen, plural indefinite samboer)

1. roommate

• kontubernal
• slof
• roomie
• roommate

Originally from Portuguese, though reinforced by several other languages.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsambo/
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Hyphenation: sam‧bo

sambo (accusative singular sambon, plural samboj, accusative plural sambojn)

1. samba

< Russian са́мбо (sámbo)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑmbo/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝mbo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑmbo
• Syllabification^(key): sam‧bo
• Hyphenation^(key): sam‧bo

sambo

1. sambo (Russian martial art and combat sport)

From Russian са́мбо (sámbo), abbreviation of самооборо́на/самозащи́та без ору́жия (samooboróna/samozaščíta bez orúžija, “self-defense without weapons”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsam.bo/
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Hyphenation: sàm‧bo

sambo m (uncountable)

1. Sambo (Russian martial art)

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

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sambo

1. boat

From sam- (“together”) +‎ bo (“live, reside”).

2=er

sambo

1. roommate, typically with a romantic connotation

1=en
2=er

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃bu
• Hyphenation: sam‧bo

sambo m (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) Sambo (a Russian martial art)

sambo

1. first-person singular present indicative of sambar

Borrowed from Spanish zambo.

sambo m (uncountable)

1. Zambo

• IPA^(key): /ˈsambo/ [ˈsãm.bo]
• Rhymes: -ambo
• Syllabification: sam‧bo

Internationalism, from Russian са́мбо (sámbo).

sambo m (uncountable)

1. Sambo (a Russian martial art)

   Hypernym: deporte de combate

Borrowed from Quechua sambu.

sambo m (plural sambos)

1. (Ecuador) kind of pumpkin

   Hypernym: calabaza

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

• (noun) From sam- (“co-”) +‎ -bo (“habitant”).
• (verb) From sam- (“co-”) +‎ bo (“to live”), compare sammanbo.

• IPA^(key): (noun, sometimes proscribed) /ˈsambʊ/

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• IPA^(key): (verb, noun) /²samˌbuː/

sambo c

1. partner with whom one lives, usually not in a common law marriage relationship; cohabitant

The pronunciation of this word was originally with accent 2, secondary stress and a long final vowel, i.e. /²samˌbuː/, which is in line with other compounds with -bo, e.g. öbo (“islander”), stadsbo (“city dweller”). For most speakers, the pronunciation has, however, shifted to accent 1 with a short final vowel without secondary stress, i.e. /ˈsambʊ/, probably due to the influence from words like hambo (“type of folk dance”) and loanwords ending in -o, which commonly receive accent 1, e.g. mambo (“mambo, type of dance”), sambo (“Sambo”), tango, mango, etc. This accent 1 pronunciation also applies to other words coined with sambo in mind, e.g. särbo (“partner one does not live together with”), mambo (“person who lives with their mother”).

This causes uncertainty in the declension of this word. Whereas common gender words with a long final /uː/ are regularly pluralized with -r, i.e. sko > skor, öbo > öbor, common gender words with a final /ʊ/ do not have a native pluralization. For this reason, many speakers colloquially treat sambo as a loanword and pluralize the word with a foreign -s plural marker, i.e. sambos, or with a double plural marker -sar, i.e. sambosar.

This pronunciation and declension are usually proscribed, and dictionaries like SAOL and Svensk ordbok recommend using the accent 2 pronunciation with an -r plural in line with words like öbo, which they likewise recommend for words like särbo and mambo.

sambo (present sambor, preterite sambodde, supine sambott, imperative sambo)

1. to cohabit

From Spanish zambo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsambʊ/
• Rhymes: -ambʊ

sambo c

1. (archaic, derogatory) Sambo; the offspring of a Native American and a person of African descent

• sambo in Svensk ordbok (SO)