ambar

ambar

See also: ámbar, âmbar, and ämbar

English

Etymology

Some uses are directly from Persian انبار (anbâr), others are via Turkish ambar, Serbo-Croatian а̏мба̄р, Russian амба́р (ambár), Volga German Ambar, etc. Doublet of sambar.

Noun

ambar (plural ambars)

  1. (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, pages 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.

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Adjective

ambar

  1. lucky
  2. happy

Synonyms

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian انبار (anbâr).

Noun

ambar (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. barn, granary

Declension

Declension of ambar
nominative ambar
genitive ambarnıñ
dative ambarğa
accusative ambarnı
locative ambarda
ablative ambardan

Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar, ambergris).

Pronunciation

Noun

ambar (plural ambar-ambar)

  1. amber (a hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery)
    Synonyms: amber, kahrab, katilayu
  2. ambergris (the waxy product of the sperm whale)

Compounds

  • ambar bunga
  • ambar darah
  • ambar kesturi
  • ambar kuning
  • batu ambar

Further reading

Ladino

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Hebrew אַמְבָּר (ʾambār), from Middle Iranian *ambār. Compare Persian انبار (anbâr). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Or from Turkish ambar, from the same origin.

Noun

ambar m

  1. storeroom, attic, cellar

Further reading

  • 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/English-Ladino Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary (Judeo-Spanish), New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 22
  • Recuero, Pascual (1977), “anbar”, in Diccionario Básico Ladino-Español (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Riopiedras Ediciones, →ISBN, page 13

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑːmˈbɑːɾ/

Noun

ambar m (Arabic spelling ئامبار)

  1. alternative form of embar (storehouse)

Declension

Declension of ambar
definite masculine gender
case singular plural
nominative ambar ambar
construct ambarê ambarên
oblique ambarî ambaran
demonstrative oblique ambarî wan ambaran
vocative ambaro ambarino
indefinite masculine gender
case singular plural
nominative ambarek ambarin
construct ambarekî ambarine
oblique ambarekî ambarinan

References

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “ambar”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 8

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕánbar).

Noun

ambar m (plural ambars)

  1. amber
    • 1453, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, “Das legoas que estas caravellas do iffante forom allem do Cabo, e doutras cousas misticas” (chapter LXXVIII), in Chronica do descobrimento e conquista de Guiné; republished as Luís António de Abreu e Lima, editor, Paris: Fain e Thunot, 1841, page 371:
      [] e ouro que ham da terra daquelles, e coirama, e lã, e manteiga, e assy queijos que hi ha muytos, e assy tamaras em grande abastança que ham de fora, e ambar, e algallya, e anime, e azeite, e pelles dos lobos marinhos, de que ha muytos no ryo do Ouro, segundo ja ouvistes.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

  • Galician: ámbar
  • Portuguese: âmbar

References

Romanian

Noun

ambar n (plural ambare)

  1. alternative form of hambar

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish انبار (ambar), from Classical Persian انبار (anbār).

    Noun

    ȁmbār m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̏мба̄р)

    1. granary
      Synonym: žitnica
    2. silo
    3. storehouse

    Declension

    Declension of ambar
    singular plural
    nominative ambar ambari
    genitive ambara ambara
    dative ambaru ambarima
    accusative ambar ambare
    vocative ambare ambari
    locative ambaru ambarima
    instrumental ambarom ambarima

    Tagalog

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Spanish ámbar, from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, ambergris), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar, ambergris). Compare Malay ambar. Doublet of ambal.

    Pronunciation

    • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔamˈbaɾ/ [ʔɐmˈbaɾ]
    • Rhymes: -aɾ
    • Syllabification: am‧bar

    Noun

    ambár (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ᜔ᜊᜇ᜔)

    1. amber (fossil resin)

    Further reading

    • ambar”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
    • Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 29

    Turkish

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      Inherited from Ottoman Turkish انبار (ambar), borrowed from Classical Persian اَنْبَار (anbār, granary, warehouse), from Middle Persian [script needed] (hmbʾl /⁠hambār⁠⁠/, store), from Old Persian *𐏃𐎶𐎲𐎠𐎼 (hambāraʰ), from Proto-Iranian *hambāráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sambʰārás, from Proto-Indo-European *sem-bʰor-ó-s, from *sem- (together, one) + *bʰer- (to bear, carry) + *-ós (deverbal suffix).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /amˈbaɾ/
      • Hyphenation: am‧bar

      Noun

      ambar

      1. barn
        Coordinate terms: serender, nalya, bagen
        Ambarda, tavana tutturulmuş cılız ışıklar, arada sönecekmiş gibi pırpırlanıyordu.
        (please add an English translation of this usage example)
      2. granary
      3. (nautical) hold

      Declension

      Declension of ambar
      singular plural
      nominative ambar ambarlar
      definite accusative ambarı ambarları
      dative ambara ambarlara
      locative ambarda ambarlarda
      ablative ambardan ambarlardan
      genitive ambarın ambarların
      Possessive forms
      nominative
      singular plural
      1st singular ambarım ambarlarım
      2nd singular ambarın ambarların
      3rd singular ambarı ambarları
      1st plural ambarımız ambarlarımız
      2nd plural ambarınız ambarlarınız
      3rd plural ambarları ambarları
      definite accusative
      singular plural
      1st singular ambarımı ambarlarımı
      2nd singular ambarını ambarlarını
      3rd singular ambarını ambarlarını
      1st plural ambarımızı ambarlarımızı
      2nd plural ambarınızı ambarlarınızı
      3rd plural ambarlarını ambarlarını
      dative
      singular plural
      1st singular ambarıma ambarlarıma
      2nd singular ambarına ambarlarına
      3rd singular ambarına ambarlarına
      1st plural ambarımıza ambarlarımıza
      2nd plural ambarınıza ambarlarınıza
      3rd plural ambarlarına ambarlarına
      locative
      singular plural
      1st singular ambarımda ambarlarımda
      2nd singular ambarında ambarlarında
      3rd singular ambarında ambarlarında
      1st plural ambarımızda ambarlarımızda
      2nd plural ambarınızda ambarlarınızda
      3rd plural ambarlarında ambarlarında
      ablative
      singular plural
      1st singular ambarımdan ambarlarımdan
      2nd singular ambarından ambarlarından
      3rd singular ambarından ambarlarından
      1st plural ambarımızdan ambarlarımızdan
      2nd plural ambarınızdan ambarlarınızdan
      3rd plural ambarlarından ambarlarından
      genitive
      singular plural
      1st singular ambarımın ambarlarımın
      2nd singular ambarının ambarlarının
      3rd singular ambarının ambarlarının
      1st plural ambarımızın ambarlarımızın
      2nd plural ambarınızın ambarlarınızın
      3rd plural ambarlarının ambarlarının

      Derived terms

      Further reading

      • ambar”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
      • Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “ambar”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
      • 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