سنبوسه

Persian

سنبوسه

Alternative forms

• سمبوسه (sambuse)

Etymology

From Middle Persian *sambōsag, which passed into Arabic as سَنْبُوسَق (sanbūsaq), سَنْبُوسَج (sanbūsaj), سَنْبُوسَك (sanbūsak).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [san.boː.sa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säm.boː.sä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säm.boː.sä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säm.boː.sä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säm.bʊː.sä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæm.buː.se]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säm.bɵ.sä]

Readings
Classical reading?	sanbōsa
Dari reading?	sanbōsa
Iranian reading?	sanbuse
Tajik reading?	sanbüsa

Noun

سنبوسه • (sanbuse) (plural سنبوسه‌ها (sanbuse-hâ))

1. a kind of samosa (an Iranian food with a “triangular” shape)
2. headscarf (a square mantle which women wear doubled into a triangular form)
3. (archaic) pyramid

   Synonym: هرم (heram)

4. (by extension) anything triangular

Descendants

• Tajik: самбӯса (sambüsa)
• → Arabic: سَنْبُوسَة (sanbūsa)
• → Gujarati: સમોસું (samosũ)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: समोसा (samosā) (see there for further descendants)

  Urdu: سموسہ (samosā)

• → Ngazidja Comorian: samɓusa
• → Somali: sambuus
• → Swahili: sambusa
  • → Malagasy: sambosa
• → Uyghur: سامسا (samsa)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سنبوسه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul