چنبر
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (cmbl /čambar/). Akin to Old Armenian ճամբար (čambar, “camp; collar”), Classical Syriac ܨܰܡܒܳܪܳܐ (ṣambārā, “lunate ornament”), Iranian borrowings.
Noun
چنبر • (čambar)
- circle, hoop
Descendants
- → Arabic: شَنْبَر (šanbar)
- → Ottoman Turkish: چنبر (çember)
- Turkish: çember
- → Albanian: çember
- → Aromanian: cimbér
- → Bulgarian: чембер (čember)
- → Greek: τσεμπέρι (tsempéri)
- → Macedonian: чембер (čember)
- → Romanian: cember, cimbir, cimber, ciumber, ciumbir, gimbir, gimber, giumber, giumbir
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чѐмбер
- Latin: čèmber
Further reading
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 186–187
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 21
- Vullers, Johann August (1855), “چنبر”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 592b