mambí
Spanish, noun[mãmˈbi]
mambí is spelled M-A-M-B-Í (5 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish, the 117,287th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mambí is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “a Cuban independence soldier who fought in the Ten Years' War and the Cuban War of Independence against Spain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Insurrecto alzado contra España durante la lucha por la independencia de las islas de Santo Domingo y de Cuba”.
What does mambí mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea Cuban independence soldier who fought in the Ten Years' War and the Cuban War of Independence against Spain
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Insurrecto alzado contra España durante la lucha por la independencia de las islas de Santo Domingo y de Cuba.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mambí
- mambises plural
- mambisa feminine
- mambisas feminine plural
- mambíes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mambí?
- [mãmˈbi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mambí in Spanish?
mambí appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).