سنبل

Arabic

Alternative forms

سَبَل (sabal)

Etymology

From the root س ب ل (s-b-l) whence also the verb form IV أَسْبَلَ (ʔasbala, “to let down, to let hang out”).
Compare Aramaic שבלתא (šebaltā, “ear”), שבלא (šebalā, “ear”), Classical Syriac ܫܶܒܰܠܬܳܐ (šebaltā, “ear”), ܫܶܒܠܳܐ (šebalā, “ear”), Hebrew שִׁבֹּלֶת (šibbṓleṯ, “flowing stream; ear”), Ugaritic 𐎌𐎁𐎍𐎚 (šblt, “ear”), Akkadian 𒋗𒁍𒌌𒌈 (šubultum, “ear”), Eblaite 𒋤𒉺𒂖 (SÙ.PA.SIKIL /⁠šabaltum⁠/, “ear”), Old South Arabian 𐩪𐩨𐩡𐩩 (s¹blt, “ear”), Ge'ez ሰብል (säbl, “ear”), Tigrinya ሰብሊ (säbli, “ear”), Amharic ሰብል (säbəl, “ear”), Soqotri sebóleh (“ear”), Mehri seblī́t (“ear”), Shehri simbelót (“ear”), Egyptian

(sꜣbꜣjr, “shoots, spikes (of fruit trees), grape clusters”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sun.bul/

Noun

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Nardostachys grandiflora

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سُنْبُل • (sunbul) m (collective, singulative سُنْبُلَة f (sunbula), plural سَنَابِل (sanābil))

ear, spike (of a crop)
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:261:
  مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ يُنْفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُم فِي سَبِيلِ اللّٰهِ كَمَثَلِ حَبَّةٍ أَنْبَتَت سَبْعَ سَنَابِلَ فِي كُلِّ سُنْبُلَةٍ مِئَةُ حَبَّةٍ
  maṯalu llaḏīna yunfiqūna ʔamwālahum fī sabīli llāhi ka-maṯali ḥabbatin ʔanbatat sabʕa sanābila fī kulli sunbulatin miʔatu ḥabbatin
  Those who spend their wealth in the way of God are like a grain which grows seven ears, (and) in each ear a hundred grains
Virgo (a star constellation)
aromatic plant with ear-forming flowers, spikenard, Nardostachys spp., Valeriana spp., Hyacinthus spp. and the like

Declension

Declension of noun سُنْبُل (sunbul)

Collective	basic collective triptote
Collective	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سُنْبُل sunbul	السُّنْبُل as-sunbul	سُنْبُل sunbul
Nominative	سُنْبُلٌ sunbulun	السُّنْبُلُ as-sunbulu	سُنْبُلُ sunbulu
Accusative	سُنْبُلًا sunbulan	السُّنْبُلَ as-sunbula	سُنْبُلَ sunbula
Genitive	سُنْبُلٍ sunbulin	السُّنْبُلِ as-sunbuli	سُنْبُلِ sunbuli
Singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
Singulative	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سُنْبُلَة sunbula	السُّنْبُلَة as-sunbula	سُنْبُلَة sunbulat
Nominative	سُنْبُلَةٌ sunbulatun	السُّنْبُلَةُ as-sunbulatu	سُنْبُلَةُ sunbulatu
Accusative	سُنْبُلَةً sunbulatan	السُّنْبُلَةَ as-sunbulata	سُنْبُلَةَ sunbulata
Genitive	سُنْبُلَةٍ sunbulatin	السُّنْبُلَةِ as-sunbulati	سُنْبُلَةِ sunbulati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سُنْبُلَتَيْن sunbulatayn	السُّنْبُلَتَيْن as-sunbulatayn	سُنْبُلَتَيْ sunbulatay
Nominative	سُنْبُلَتَانِ sunbulatāni	السُّنْبُلَتَانِ as-sunbulatāni	سُنْبُلَتَا sunbulatā
Accusative	سُنْبُلَتَيْنِ sunbulatayni	السُّنْبُلَتَيْنِ as-sunbulatayni	سُنْبُلَتَيْ sunbulatay
Genitive	سُنْبُلَتَيْنِ sunbulatayni	السُّنْبُلَتَيْنِ as-sunbulatayni	سُنْبُلَتَيْ sunbulatay
Paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
Paucal (3-10)	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سُنْبُلَات sunbulāt	السُّنْبُلَات as-sunbulāt	سُنْبُلَات sunbulāt
Nominative	سُنْبُلَاتٌ sunbulātun	السُّنْبُلَاتُ as-sunbulātu	سُنْبُلَاتُ sunbulātu
Accusative	سُنْبُلَاتٍ sunbulātin	السُّنْبُلَاتِ as-sunbulāti	سُنْبُلَاتِ sunbulāti
Genitive	سُنْبُلَاتٍ sunbulātin	السُّنْبُلَاتِ as-sunbulāti	سُنْبُلَاتِ sunbulāti
Plural of variety	basic broken plural diptote
Plural of variety	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَنَابِل sanābil	السَّنَابِل as-sanābil	سَنَابِل sanābil
Nominative	سَنَابِلُ sanābilu	السَّنَابِلُ as-sanābilu	سَنَابِلُ sanābilu
Accusative	سَنَابِلَ sanābila	السَّنَابِلَ as-sanābila	سَنَابِلَ sanābila
Genitive	سَنَابِلَ sanābila	السَّنَابِلِ as-sanābili	سَنَابِلِ sanābili

Descendants

→ Amharic: ሰንበል (sänbäl, “ear”), ሰንቡል (sänbul, “spikenard”), ስንቡል (sənbul, “spikenard”)
→ Azerbaijani: sünbül
→ Ge'ez: ሰንብል (sänbəl, “ear”), ሰንበል (sänbäl, “ear”), ሰንቢል (sänbil, “spikenard”), ሰንቡል (sänbul, “spikenard”)
→ Classical Persian: سُنْبُل (sunbul)
- → Armenian: սմբուլ (smbul)
- → English: sumbal
- → Georgian: სუმბული (sumbuli)
- → Hindustani:
  Hindi: सुंबुल (sumbul)
  Urdu: سنبل (sumbul)
- → Kazakh: сүмбіл (sümbıl)
- → Sindhi: سنبل
- → Ottoman Turkish: سنبل (sümbül)
  - Turkish: sümbül
  - → Albanian: zymbyl
  - → Bulgarian: зюмбю́л (zjumbjúl)
  - → Gagauz: zümbül
  - → Greek: ζουμπούλι (zoumpoúli), ζιμπούλι n (zimpoúli)
  - Kurdish:
    → Northern Kurdish: sumbul, simbil
  - → Ladino: zimbul
  - → Macedonian: зумбул (zumbul)
  - → Romanian: zambilă
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: зу̀мбул
    Latin script: zùmbul
- → Uzbek: sumbul
→ Spanish: azúmbar
→ Tigre: ስንቡል (sənbul, “spikenard”)

References

H7641 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Freytag, Georg (1833) “سَبَلٌ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 281
Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 178–179
Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 484, 505
Leslau, Wolf (1938) Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 280
Olmo Lete, Gregorio del with Sanmartín, Joaquín and Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015) “سنبل”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 793

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (sunbul).

Pronunciation

(standard) IPA^(key): [symˈbyl]
(dialectal, vulgar) IPA^(key): [zymˈbyl]

Noun

سنبل • (sümbül)

hyacinth, any plant of the genus Hyacinthus
curly locks and ringlets of a boy or girl

Derived terms

سنبلو (sümbüli, “hyacinthine”)

Descendants

Turkish: sümbül
→ Albanian: zymbyl
→ Bulgarian: зюмбю́л (zjumbjúl)
→ Gagauz: zümbül
→ Greek: ζουμπούλι (zoumpoúli), ζιμπούλι n (zimpoúli)
Kurdish:
→ Northern Kurdish: sumbul, simbil
→ Ladino: zimbul
→ Macedonian: зумбул (zumbul)
→ Romanian: zambilă
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: зу̀мбул

Latin script: zùmbul

Persian

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:

سنبل

Wikipedia ^fa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُنْبُل (sunbul).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sun.ˈbul]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊm.bʊ́l]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sʊm.bʊ́l]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sum.búl̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [som.ból̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sum.búl]

Readings
Classical reading^?	sunbul
Dari reading^?	sunbul
Iranian reading^?	sonbol
Tajik reading^?	sunbul

Noun

سنبل • (sonbol)

hyacinth

Descendants

→ Armenian: սմբուլ (smbul)
→ English: sumbal
→ Georgian: სუმბული (sumbuli)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: सुंबुल (sumbul)

Urdu: سنبل (sumbul)
→ Kazakh: сүмбіл (sümbıl)
→ Sindhi: سنبل
→ Ottoman Turkish: سنبل (sümbül)
- Turkish: sümbül
- → Albanian: zymbyl
- → Bulgarian: зюмбю́л (zjumbjúl)
- → Gagauz: zümbül
- → Greek: ζουμπούλι (zoumpoúli), ζιμπούλι n (zimpoúli)
- Kurdish:
  → Northern Kurdish: sumbul, simbil
- → Ladino: zimbul
- → Macedonian: зумбул (zumbul)
- → Romanian: zambilă
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: зу̀мбул
  Latin script: zùmbul
→ Uzbek: sumbul

سنبل

Contents

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Descendants

References

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Descendants