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gum⋅bo

  [guhm-boh] noun, plural -bos, adjective
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–noun
1. a stew or thick soup, usually made with chicken or seafood, greens, and okra or sometimes filé as a thickener.
2. okra.
3. soil that becomes sticky and nonporous when wet.
–adjective
4. of, pertaining to, or like gumbo.
Origin:
1795–1805, Americanism; < LaF gombo, gumbo < a Bantu language; cf. Umbundu ochinggombo, Luba chinggombo okra
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Gum⋅bo

  [guhm-boh]
–noun (sometimes lowercase)
a French patois spoken by blacks and Creoles in Louisiana and the French West Indies.

o⋅kra

  [oh-kruh]
–noun
1. a shrub, Abelmoschus esculentus, of the mallow family, bearing beaked pods.
2. the pods, used in soups, stews, etc.
3. a dish made with the pods.
Also called gumbo.

Origin:
1670–80; said to be of West African origin, though precise source unknown; cf. Igbo ókùrù okra
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gum·bo   (gŭm'bō)   
n.   pl. gum·bos

  1. Chiefly Southern U.S. See okra. See Regional Note at goober.

  2. A soup or stew thickened with okra pods. Also called okra.

  3. Chiefly Mississippi Valley & Western U.S. A fine silty soil, common in the southern and western United States, that forms an unusually sticky mud when wet.

  4. Gumbo A French patois spoken by some Black people and Creoles in Louisiana and the French West Indies.


[Louisiana French gombo, of Bantu origin; akin to Tshiluba ki-ngumbo, okra.]
o·kra   (ō'krə)   
n.  

    1. A tall tropical Asian annual plant (Abelmoschus esculentus) widely cultivated in warm regions for its edible, mucilaginous green pods.

    2. The edible pods of this plant, used in soups and as a vegetable. Also called regionally gumbo.

  2. See gumbo.


[Of West African origin; akin to Akan (Twi) nkruma.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

okra 
1679, from a West African language (cf. Akan nkruma "okra").

gumbo 
1805, from Louisiana Fr., probably ult. from Central Bantu dialect (cf. Mbundu ngombo "okra").
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