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bambolear

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: bam‧bo‧le‧ar

Verb

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bambolear (first-person singular present bamboleio, first-person singular preterite bamboleei, past participle bamboleado)

  1. to waddle

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Spanish

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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

Verb

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bambolear (first-person singular present bamboleo, first-person singular preterite bamboleé, past participle bamboleado)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to sway, wobble
  2. (transitive, reflexive) to swing, oscillate

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Further reading

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  • bambolear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
  • 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