ambar

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

• Abram, Bamar, Brama, abram

Alternative forms

• ambaru, ãmbar, ãmbaru, mbar, mbaru

Adjective

ambar

1. lucky
2. happy

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian انبار (anbâr).

Noun

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

1. barn, granary

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From Karey [Term?].

Further reading

• “ambar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Alternative forms

• anbar

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 (Latin spelling)

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 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːmˈbɑːɾ/

Noun

ambar m (Arabic spelling ئامبار)

1. Alternative form of embar (“storehouse”)

References

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

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)

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ambar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Noun

ambar n (plural ambare)

1. Alternative form of hambar

Alternative forms

• ȁnbār, hȁmbār

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish انبار (ambar), from Persian انبار (anbâr).

Noun

ȁmbār m (Cyrillic spelling а̏мба̄р)

1. granary

   Synonym: žitnica

2. silo
3. storehouse

Alternative forms

• hanbar

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish انبار (embar, ambar), borrowed from Persian انبار (anbâr).

Noun

ambar

1. barn

   Coordinate terms: serender, nalya, bagen

2. granary
3. (nautical) hold

References

• 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