Mambo

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1940s: from American Spanish, probably from Haitian Creole, from Yoruba, literally ‘to talk’.


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From Haitian Creole manbo(“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo(“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo(“dance”).


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mambo (n.)

popular dance (like the rhumba but livelier), 1947, from American Spanish mambo, said by Webster to be from Haitian creole word for "voodoo priestess."