ambe

Ionic Ancient Greek [Term?], from [Term?] (“a ridge”).

ambe

1. (historical) An old mechanical contrivance, ascribed to Hippocrates, for reducing dislocations of the shoulder.

• BAME, Bame, Beam, Mabe, beam, bema, mabe

Borrowed from Latin ambō.

ambe

1. (quantifying) both

   Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino proponeva un standard litterari, Quechua meridional, que combina characteristicas de ambe dialectos.

   Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino proposed a literary standard, Southern Quechua, which combines characteristics of both dialects.

ambe

1. father

   je ambe — his father

   ju ambe — her father

• Jan Honoré Maria Cornelis Boelaars, The Linguistic Position of South-Western New Guinea (III), chapter XII, Kati language
• Johan Willem Schoorl, Culture and Change Among the Muyu (1993), page 307

Borrowed from Latin ambō; cf. Italian ambo.

ambe

1. (quantifying) both