سنبوسه

سنبوسه

Persian

سنبوسه

Alternative forms

• سمبوسه‎ (classical sambōsa, Iranian sambuse)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /samboːsa/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /samboːsa/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /sæmbuːse/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /sambɵːsa/

Noun

سنبوسه • (classical sambōsa, Iranian sambuse) (plural سنبوسه‌ها‎ (classical sambōsa-hā, Iranian sambuse-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)
• → 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