ambar
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Some uses are directly from Persian انبار (ambâr), others are via Turkish ambar, Serbo-Croatian а̏мба̄р, Russian амба́р (ambár), Volga German Ambar, etc. Doublet of sambar.
NounEdit
ambar (plural ambars)
- (rare) Any of various kinds of subterranean or barn-like granary, depending on context, in Iran, Turkey, Russia or the Balkans.
- 1977, Fred C. Koch, The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present, page 78-79:
- Generally the small granary (which the colonists referred to by its russian name, ambar), [existed. ... The oven's] auxiliary structure was as common to a home site as the principal abode, the barn, and the ambar.
- 1985, British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: From the First to the Second World War. Series B, Turkey, Iran, and the Middle East, 1918-1939, page 84:
- 57. Shortly after the coming of the American administrators it was found that one of the Tehran ambars had through lack of proper disinfection and ventilation become infected with weevils. [...] 58. The chief of the ambar had also previously requested authority to issue in small quantities 5,000 kharvars of grain which contained bitter seeds of which had been damaged by insect pests. Had his recommendation been approved when submitted early in the last year this grain could have been disposed of […]
- 2003, Willem M. Floor, Agriculture in Qajar Iran, page 231:
- Larger quantities of grain were kept in an ambar, a sub-terranean storage space aout three meters deep. [...] At the entrance of the ambar dung cakes were put to deter insects.
- 2004, Petar Vlahović, Serbia: the country, people, life, customs, page 194:
- The ambar is built from logs or thick planks well and tightly adhering to each other. It is divided into partitions [...] for this or that type of grain (for instance, rye, wheat, etc.).
- 2007, Margaret Dittemore, Looking Towards the Road: Architecture and Change in a Turkish Village, page 175:
- The ground floor is most often used to store fuel (wood, coal, and dung cakes), dried and pickled foods, flour, grain, old tools, and other equipment. [...] Extra grain and flour may be kept in large 100-kilo gunny sacks near the ambar.
- 1977, Fred C. Koch, The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present, page 78-79:
AnagramsEdit
AromanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ambar
SynonymsEdit
Crimean TatarEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Persian انبار (ambār).
NounEdit
ambar
DeclensionEdit
nominative | ambar |
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genitive | ambarnıñ |
dative | ambarğa |
accusative | ambarnı |
locative | ambarda |
ablative | ambardan |
IndonesianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Arabic عَنْبَر (ʿanbar), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar, “ambergris”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ambar (first-person possessive ambarku, second-person possessive ambarmu, third-person possessive ambarnya)
- amber: a hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
- ambergris: the waxy product of the sperm whale.
SynonymsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Karey [Term?].
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ambar (first-person possessive ambarku, second-person possessive ambarmu, third-person possessive ambarnya)
Further readingEdit
- “ambar” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
LadinoEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Hebrew אַמְבָּר (ʾambār), from Middle Iranian *ambār. Compare Persian انبار (ambâr). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Or from Turkish ambar, from the same origin.
NounEdit
ambar m (Latin spelling)
Further readingEdit
- Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “ambar”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
- Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977), “ámbar”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 35
- Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000), “ambar”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 22
- Recuero, Pascual (1977), “anbar”, in Diccionario Básico Ladino-Español (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Riopiedras Ediciones, →ISBN, page 13
RomanianEdit
NounEdit
ambar n (plural ambare)
- Alternative form of hambar
Serbo-CroatianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish انبار (ambar), from Persian انبار (ambâr).
NounEdit
ȁmbār m (Cyrillic spelling а̏мба̄р)
DeclensionEdit
TurkishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ottoman Turkish انبار (embar, ambar), borrowed from Persian انبار (ambâr).
NounEdit
ambar
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ReferencesEdit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ambar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN