Mambo
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1940s: from American Spanish, probably from Haitian Creole, from Yoruba, literally ‘to talk’.
wiktionary
From Haitian Creole manbo(“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo(“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo(“dance”).
etymonline
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."
