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Asi
Noun
tambo
- tender and edible bamboo shoot
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: tam‧bo
- IPA(key): /tamˈboʔ/
Noun
tambô
- growth
- Synonym: tubo
Derived terms
Galician
Etymology
From Latin thalamus, from Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos, “inner room”). Doublet of tálamo.
Pronunciation
Noun
tambo m (plural tambos)
- (obsolete) thalamus; nuptial or pre-nuptial chamber
1484, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 184:Ano de oytenta e quatro, a oyto dias de agosto, ena Rúa Nova da çibdad d'Ourense, Fernán de Moure, mercador, e sua muller Lionor Gonçalues e seu fillo Afonso de Moure, que todos tres estaban presentes, moradores en Chantada, huus con liçençia dos outros e os outros dos outros, espeçialmente o dito Afonso de Moure, con liçençia e outorgamento e consentimiento dos ditos seus padre e madre, dou en arras e en pura doaçón a Elvira , filla de Afonso de Prado e de sua muller Elvira Fernandes que sya nóbea en tanbo, eno sotó das casas de Lopo de Deça, canónigo, que son ena dita Rúa Nova, por vyrgynidade do seu corpo, os lugares de Faluche, con seus caseyros e casas e herdades e términos- Year the eighty-four, eight days of August, in the Rúa Nova of the city of Ourense, Fernán de Moure, merchant, and his wife Leonor González and their son Afonso de Moure, all the three present, inhabitants in Chantada, with mutual license, especially said Afonso de Moure with the license and grant and consent of said his father and his mother; he gave in dowry as pure donation to Elvira, daughter of Afonso de Prado and of his wife Elvira Fernández, being the bride in the (pre)nuptial chamber in the ground floor of the houses of Lopo de Deza, canon, which are in said Rúa Nova, for the virginity of her body, the hamlet of Faluche, with its tenants and houses and properties and limits
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tanbo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- "tanbo" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
Gofa
Noun
tambo
- tobacco
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Quechua tampu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtambo/
- Rhymes: -ambo
- Syllabification: tam‧bo
Noun
tambo m (plural tambos)
- (Mexico, El Salvador) barrel
2017 January, “Sancionarán cruce ilegal de gasolina de EU a México”, in Frontera.info:Detalló que también implica el inicio de un procedimiento administrativo en materia aduanera, el decomiso de la mercancía que se pretenda ingresar y la retención en garantía del interés fiscal del vehículo en que se transporten los galones, recipientes o tambos con gasolina.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Mexico) prison
- (Argentina, Uruguay) milking yard
1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:En distantes bardales reposaba la celeste curva del cielo, y sólo entristecía la calleja el monótono rumor de una sierra sinfín o el mugido de las vacas en el tambo.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Further reading
Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
tambo (n class, plural tambo)
- distance, length, height, width
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Tagalog
Pronunciation
Noun
tambô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜋ᜔ᜊᜓ)
- common reed (Phragmites australis)
- (colloquial) broom made from common reed
- Synonym: walis-tambo
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