bambolear

• Hyphenation: bam‧bo‧le‧ar

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

1. to waddle

• bambalear

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”).

• IPA^(key): /bamboleˈaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bam‧bo‧le‧ar

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

1. (transitive, reflexive) to sway, wobble

   Synonym: tambalear

2. (transitive, reflexive) to swing, oscillate

   Synonym: balancear

• “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”