malambo

Malambo

English

Etymology

Portuguese [Term?]

Noun

malambo (countable and uncountable, plural malambos)

1. An old Argentine dance.
2. A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton malambo.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “malambo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Higaonon

Etymology

From ma- and lambo.

Adjective

malambo

1. fat, obese

Spanish

Noun

malambo m (plural malambos)

1. malambo

Further reading

• “malambo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014