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Definition: SAMBO |
SAMBONoun1. A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo. |
Date "SAMBO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sambo A pet name given to anyone of the negro race. The term is properly applied to the male offspring of a negro and mulatto, the female offspring being called Zamba. (Spanish, zambo, bowlegged; Latin, scambus.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sambo (also called Sombo) is a modern martial art, combat sport and self defense system developed in the Soviet Union during the Communist era.The word Sambo is an abbrevation of "SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhiya" meaning "self defense without weapons".
Although Sambo has its roots in traditional folk wrestling and other foreign martial arts like Judo (the founder of Sambo studied under the founder of Judo and acquired a 2nd degree black belt in this sport), this martial art is new: on November 16, 1938, the sport was recognized by USSR National Committee of Physical Culture.
There are three versions of Sambo:
In summary, one could say that Sambo is an art combining strikes and grappling, with a slight emphasis on the latter. Military sambo is more concerned with disabling an opponent quickly, not worrying about finesse or permanent harm, also, name notwithstanding, military sambo does include weapons practice and disarming techniques.
- sport Sambo which is similar to Judo, Jiu jitsu or Wrestling. The competition is similar to Judo, but with some differences in rules (e.g. ankle, knee and leg locks are allowed), protocol, and uniform. Points are also allocated much like in Judo.
- self-defense Sambo which is similar to Aikijujutsu or Aikido, because it is entirely defensive against attacks by armed and unarmed attackers.
- Combat Sambo utilized and developed by the army.
Dress: A Sambo practitioner normally wears a kurtka, a belt, and shoes.
Sambo was also an offensive and derogatory term for "black person" in post-Civil War America, largely due to the stereotype created by the children's book The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman in 1898. It was a cute story of an Indian (not African) boy outwitting a group of hungry tigers; eventually, they spun around and around a tree so fast that they turned into butter.
The story was later rewritten as The Story of Little Babaji to avoid the racial stereotyping. The once-popular "Sambo's" restaurant chain also suffered from its association with the story.
External link
- e-texts of The Story of Little Black Sambo:
- HTML version with the illustrations
- plain text, no illustrations (Project Gutenberg edition)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sambo."
Crosswords: SAMBO |
| English words defined with "SAMBO": Zambo. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SAMBO": Zambo. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SAMBO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (co-occupant), Turkmen (wrestling). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sambo (1950) Little Black Sambo (1935) | |
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Only two Korean companies, Volvo and Sambo manufacture crawler-type cranes. (references) | |
Five domestic manufacturers including Sambo Co., Halla Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Dainong Heavy Industries Inc, Kwang Lim Co., Ltd., and Soosan Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. went bankrupt or are currently under court receivership. (references) | ||
There are nine crane manufacturers in Korea; Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Heavy Industries, Volvo Korea, Sambo Co. Ltd., Halla Heavy Co. Ltd., Dainong Heavy Industries Inc., Kwang Lim Co., Ltd., Han Yang Kong Yung Co., and Soo San Industries. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Honduras | In August the preventive police dislodged 1,000 Afro-Caribbean, also called Garifuna, residents near Sambo Creek, Colon, with tear gas during a land dispute with a local landowner. (references) |
South Africa | He was pardoned for: The abduction and murder of Jameson Mngomezulu; the murders of KP Shabangu, Thabo Mohale, and Derik Mashobane; the death of Xolile Samson; being an accessory in the killing of Johannes Sambo; and for supplying weapons to the IFP. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SAMBO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "SAMBO" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sambo | 177 |
little black sambo | 92 |
russian sambo | 17 |
combat sambo | 15 |
sambo school | 11 |
black sambo | 10 |
black book little sambo | 9 |
sambo technique | 8 |
rosinha sambo | 6 |
restaurant sambo | 4 |
leg lock sambo | 3 |
story of little black sambo | 3 |
history sambo | 2 |
little sambo | 2 |
sambo training | 2 |
sambo wrestling | 2 |
doll sambo | 2 |
black book golden little little sambo | 2 |
championnat france sambo | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SAMBO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zezo, xax. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самбо, негър (black, blackamoor, jim crow, negro), потомък на индианец и негър. (various references) | |
Czech | èernoch (jim crow, negro). (various references) | |
Greek | αφρικανόσ μιγάσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zambó. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ambosay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | zambo, preto (ebon, jim-crow, negro, sable), negro (black, blackamoor, blacky, ebon, jim-crow, mirk, murk, Negro, sable), mulato (mulatto), mestiço (crossbreed, mestizo, metis, mongrel). (various references) | |
Russian | негр (afro-american, blackamoor, blacky, coon, negro, negro man). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | potomak indijanca i crnca. (various references) | |
Turkish | zenci (african, black, blackamoor, Blackie, Blacky, buck, colored, coloured, coon, crow, jim crow, moke, negro, negroid, spade, uncle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | zambo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SAMBO": sambos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SAMBO" (pronounced sa"mbō) |
| 3 | -m b ō | bimbo, gumbo, jumbo, limbo, Mambo. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ambos. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-m-o-s" | |
-1 letter: abos, ambo, bams, boas, moas, mobs, soma. | |
-2 letters: abo, abs, bam, bas, boa, bos, mas, moa, mob, mos, oms, sab, sob, som. | |
-3 letters: ab, am, as, ba, bo, ma, mo, om, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-m-o-s" | |
+1 letter: abmhos, abohms, abomas, mambos, sambos. | |
+2 letters: abomasa, abomasi, ambones, amoebas, aplombs, bamboos, bayamos, bazooms, bemoans, biomass, bombast, bromals, combats, crambos, gambols, mamboes, mobcaps, sjambok, subatom, tombacs, tombaks, wombats. | |
+3 letters: abdomens, abelmosk, abomasal, abomasum, abomasus, albumose, amboinas, amboynas, ambroids, ambrosia, backmost, bagworms, bambinos, barrooms, bigamous, bimanous, bioplasm, biramose, biramous, blastoma, boatsman, boatsmen, bohemias, bombards, bombasts, bondsman, boyarism, bromates, bumboats, cabombas, cembalos, cramboes, fibromas, gambados, gambeson, gamboges, goombahs, goombays, hambones, jobnames, lumbagos, marabous, mislabor, mossback, movables, myoblast, nabobism, obeahism, outbeams, rhabdoms, sjamboks, smokable, subatoms, tambours, tombacks, tombolas. | |
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