Mamba

Definition: Mamba

Mamba

Noun

1. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.

Crosswords: Mamba

English words defined with "mamba": black mamba ♦ Dendroaspis augusticeps ♦ green mamba. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Mamba" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (Mamba), German (Mamba), Italian (Mamba), Portuguese (mameluke), Serbo-Croatian (mamba), Swahili (crocodile), Swedish (Mamba), Turkish (Mamba).

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Modern Usage: Mamba

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember ("We Built This City"; performing artist: Starship)
Movie/TV Titles	Black Mamba (1974) Mamba (1930)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mamba

Domain	Title
Books	Black Mamba (reference) Black Mamba rising : South African worker poets in struggle (reference) Cult of the Green Mamba (reference) From the Mouth of the Mamba (reference) Grammar and Dictionary of the Binandere Language, Mamba River Papua (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mamba

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mamba

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Liberia	The United States embassy is located on 111 United Nations Drive, Mamba Point, Monrovia, tel: 231-226370, fax:231-226148. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mamba

"Mamba" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Mamba" is used about 13 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)	84.62%	11	106,044
Noun (singular)	15.38%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Mamba

Expressions using "mamba": black mamba ♦ green mamba. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mamba

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
black mamba	142
mamba	88
green mamba	36
fisher gary mamba	16
mamba samantha	16
mamba snake	13
bite black mamba	7
mamba mustang	6
mamba negra	6
artemis mamba	4
diesel mamba	3
beer mamba	3
boat mamba	3
mamba zwarte	3
flashing mamba	2
bolle mamba	2
mamba spiel	2
angel ir3 mamba	2
001 mamba	2
candy mamba	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Mamba

Language		Translations for "mamba"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Mambë. (various references)

Arabic		‏الممبة أفعي سامة. (various references)

Bulgarian		�'ид Отровна Африканска Змия. (various references)

Farsi		مارهای زهردارمناطق گرمسیر(ج.ش.). (various references)

French		Mamba. (various references)

German		Mamba. (various references)

Hungarian		mamba kígyó, Mámba Kígyó. (various references)

Italian		Mamba. (various references)

Pig Latin		ambamay

Portuguese		Mamãe (Ma, mam, mammy, mom, moment, mommy). (various references)

Russian		Мамба. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mamba. (various references)

Spanish		Tipo De Serpiente Venenosa. (various references)

Swedish		Mamba. (various references)

Thai		งูพิษสีเขียวหรือ�"ำของแอฟริกา. (various references)

Turkish		Mamba, Zehirli Afrika Yılanı. (various references)

Ukranian		Мамба. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mamba

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mamba": mambas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mamba" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gambax, jamba, kama, kambay, maban, Mabb, mabo, Magb, magbag, Maibai, Majbari, Malbak, Mamah, mamar, mamaw, mamay, mammae, mammai, mammaw, Mamrak, mamsa, Mamta, Manbaa, Manbu, Manobhai, Manubhai, manva, manza, memb, memba, membe, Membray, miba, Mlambala, mmb, mmta, momb, momba, mombo, mumba, Mumbi, Mwamba, Namba, nambiar, Nemba, Nzambo, rambai. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mamba"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mamba" (pronounced mÄ"mbu)
4	-Ä" m b u	Samba.
3	-m b u	gamba, marimba.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Mamba

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-m-m"
	-1 letter: mama.
	-2 letters: aba, ama, baa, bam.
	-3 letters: aa, ab, am, ba, ma, mm.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-m-m"
	+1 letter: mambas.
	+2 letters: bemadam, macumba, marimba.
	+3 letters: abomasum, bemadams, macumbas, marimbas.
	+4 letters: bemadamed, flammable, matambala.
	+5 letters: ambulacrum, backgammon, bemadaming, flammables, submaximal.
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