Portuguese
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Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: bam‧bo‧le‧ar
bambolear (first-person singular present bamboleio, first-person singular preterite bamboleei, past participle bamboleado)
- to waddle
Conjugation
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1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Alternative forms
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Etymology
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Of sound-symbolic origin, possibly via Late Latin *bambalare (“to swing, sway, shake”); compare Portuguese bambolear (“to wobble, waddle”), Norman bamboler and Walloon bamber (“to shake one's head”).
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /bamboleˈaɾ/ [bãm.bo.leˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: bam‧bo‧le‧ar
bambolear (first-person singular present bamboleo, first-person singular preterite bamboleé, past participle bamboleado)
- (transitive, reflexive) to sway, wobble
- (transitive, reflexive) to swing, oscillate
Conjugation
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1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of bambolear
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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singular
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plural
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1st person
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2nd person
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3rd person
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1st person
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2nd person
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3rd person
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with infinitive bambolear
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dative
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bambolearme
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bambolearte
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bambolearle, bambolearse
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bambolearnos
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bambolearos
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bambolearles, bambolearse
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accusative
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bambolearme
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bambolearte
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bambolearlo, bambolearla, bambolearse
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bambolearnos
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bambolearos
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bambolearlos, bambolearlas, bambolearse
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with gerund bamboleando
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dative
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bamboleándome
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bamboleándote
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bamboleándole, bamboleándose
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bamboleándonos
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bamboleándoos
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bamboleándoles, bamboleándose
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accusative
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bamboleándome
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bamboleándote
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bamboleándolo, bamboleándola, bamboleándose
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bamboleándonos
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bamboleándoos
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bamboleándolos, bamboleándolas, bamboleándose
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with informal second-person singular tú imperative bambolea
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dative
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bamboléame
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bamboléate
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bamboléale
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bamboléanos
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not used
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bamboléales
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accusative
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bamboléame
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bamboléate
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bamboléalo, bamboléala
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bamboléanos
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not used
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bamboléalos, bamboléalas
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with informal second-person singular vos imperative bamboleá
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dative
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bamboleame
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bamboleate
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bamboleale
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bamboleanos
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not used
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bamboleales
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accusative
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bamboleame
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bamboleate
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bambolealo, bamboleala
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bamboleanos
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not used
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bambolealos, bambolealas
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with formal second-person singular imperative bambolee
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dative
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bamboléeme
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not used
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bamboléele, bamboléese
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bamboléenos
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not used
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bamboléeles
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accusative
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bamboléeme
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not used
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bamboléelo, bamboléela, bamboléese
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bamboléenos
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not used
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bamboléelos, bamboléelas
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with first-person plural imperative bamboleemos
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dative
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not used
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bamboleémoste
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bamboleémosle
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bamboleémonos
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bamboleémoos
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bamboleémosles
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accusative
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not used
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bamboleémoste
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bamboleémoslo, bamboleémosla
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bamboleémonos
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bamboleémoos
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bamboleémoslos, bamboleémoslas
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with informal second-person plural imperative bambolead
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dative
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bamboleadme
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not used
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bamboleadle
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bamboleadnos
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bamboleaos
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bamboleadles
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accusative
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bamboleadme
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not used
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bamboleadlo, bamboleadla
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bamboleadnos
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bamboleaos
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bamboleadlos, bamboleadlas
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with formal second-person plural imperative bamboleen
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dative
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bamboléenme
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not used
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bamboléenle
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bamboléennos
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not used
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bamboléenles, bamboléense
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accusative
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bamboléenme
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not used
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bamboléenlo, bamboléenla
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bamboléennos
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not used
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bamboléenlos, bamboléenlas, bamboléense
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Derived terms
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Further reading
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- “bambolear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Carnoy, Albert J. (1917) “Apophony and Rhyme Words in Vulgar Latin Onomatopoeias”, in American Journal of Philology, volume 38, number 3 (No. 151), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →JSTOR, § 9. *bombus, *bambus, *bimbus, page 271 of 265–284: “*bambalare”