Etymology

shambo

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Today it means: A style of music made by the Ovambo people of Namibia, influenced by reggae. Full definition →

French Archambault
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The story

  1. French · derived fromArchambault
  2. English todayShambo

From French Archambault, with loss of the first syllable.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.