zambo

See also: Zambo

Finnish

Noun

zambo

  1. Zambo (person with African and Native American/indigenous heritage; Afro-Indian)

Declension
Inflection of zambo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative zambo zambot
genitive zambon zambojen
partitive zamboa zamboja
illative zamboon zamboihin
singular plural
nominative zambo zambot
accusative nom. zambo zambot
gen. zambon
genitive zambon zambojen
partitive zamboa zamboja
inessive zambossa zamboissa
elative zambosta zamboista
illative zamboon zamboihin
adessive zambolla zamboilla
ablative zambolta zamboilta
allative zambolle zamboille
essive zambona zamboina
translative zamboksi zamboiksi
instructive — zamboin
abessive zambotta zamboitta
comitative — zamboineen

Italian

Noun

zambo m

  1. half-caste of an African negro and an indigenous American

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain, but probably from an alteration of Vulgar Latin *strambus (“squinting, crosseyed, crooked, distorted”), from Latin strabus, from Ancient Greek στραβός (strabós)[1][2].

Adjective

zambo (feminine singular zamba, masculine plural zambos, feminine plural zambas)

  1. bowlegged, bandy-legged
  2. (Latin America) Zambo (one of mixed African and Native American ancestry)

References
  1. https://www.scribd.com/document/220768067/Corominas-Diccionario-Etimologico
  2. http://dle.rae.es/?id=cJPeJ7D
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