Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Persian چنبر (čanbar).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

شَنْبَر (šanbarm (plural شَنَابِر (šanābir))

  1. frame, ring, rim, hoop (in various technical applications)
  2. a kind of headscarf of a woman bound around, kerchief

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Algerian Arabic: شنبير (šenbīr)

References edit

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “شنبر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 789
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شنبر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 676