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Portuguese
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: bam‧bo‧le‧ar
Verb
bambolear (first-person singular present bamboleio , first-person singular preterite bamboleei , past participle bamboleado )
to waddle
Conjugation
Spanish
Etymology
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
IPA (key ) : /bamboleˈaɾ/
Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: bam‧bo‧le‧ar
Verb
bambolear (first-person singular present bamboleo , first-person singular preterite bamboleé , past participle bamboleado )
( transitive , reflexive ) to sway , wobble
Synonym: tambalear
( transitive , reflexive ) to swing , oscillate
Synonym: balancear
Conjugation
Selected combined forms of bambolear
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
with infinitive bambolear
bambolearme
bambolearte
bambolearle , bambolearse
bambolearnos
bambolearos
bambolearles , bambolearse
bambolearme
bambolearte
bambolearlo , bambolearla , bambolearse
bambolearnos
bambolearos
bambolearlos , bambolearlas , bambolearse
with gerund bamboleando
bamboleándome
bamboleándote
bamboleándole , bamboleándose
bamboleándonos
bamboleándoos
bamboleándoles , bamboleándose
bamboleándome
bamboleándote
bamboleándolo , bamboleándola , bamboleándose
bamboleándonos
bamboleándoos
bamboleándolos , bamboleándolas , bamboleándose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative bambolea
bamboléame
bamboléate
bamboléale
bamboléanos
not used
bamboléales
bamboléame
bamboléate
bamboléalo , bamboléala
bamboléanos
not used
bamboléalos , bamboléalas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative bamboleá
bamboleame
bamboleate
bamboleale
bamboleanos
not used
bamboleales
bamboleame
bamboleate
bambolealo , bamboleala
bamboleanos
not used
bambolealos , bambolealas
with formal second-person singular imperative bambolee
bamboléeme
not used
bamboléele , bamboléese
bamboléenos
not used
bamboléeles
bamboléeme
not used
bamboléelo , bamboléela , bamboléese
bamboléenos
not used
bamboléelos , bamboléelas
with first-person plural imperative bamboleemos
not used
bamboleémoste
bamboleémosle
bamboleémonos
bamboleémoos
bamboleémosles
not used
bamboleémoste
bamboleémoslo , bamboleémosla
bamboleémonos
bamboleémoos
bamboleémoslos , bamboleémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative bambolead
bamboleadme
not used
bamboleadle
bamboleadnos
bamboleaos
bamboleadles
bamboleadme
not used
bamboleadlo , bamboleadla
bamboleadnos
bamboleaos
bamboleadlos , bamboleadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative bamboleen
bamboléenme
not used
bamboléenle
bamboléennos
not used
bamboléenles , bamboléense
bamboléenme
not used
bamboléenlo , bamboléenla
bamboléennos
not used
bamboléenlos , bamboléenlas , bamboléense
Derived terms
Further reading
“bambolear ”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 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 ”