سمندر

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani سمندر / समंदर (samandar), from Sanskrit समुद्र (samudra).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /səmˈənˈd̪ər/

Noun

سمندر • (samandar) m

  1. ocean

Persian

Alternative forms
  • سمندل (samandal)
  • سمندول (samandul)
  • سمندور (samandur)
  • سمندون (samandun)
  • سمندوک (samanduk)

Etymology

Long considered a compound from سام (sâm, “fire, flame”), and اندر (andar, “inside”) by most Persian dictionaries. [1]

This would be etymologically correct because a synonym of salamander in Persian is آذرشین (âzaršin, literally “fire-sitter”)[2] and this animal has been long featured in Persian mythology and Persian literature.

However, Dehkhoda rejects this derivation, and says that it is folk etymology; as سمندر (samandar), is most likely from Ancient Greek σαλαμάνδρα (salamándra).[3] But the origin of the Greek term is uncertain and there is a small possibility that it is from Persian.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sä.män̪.d̪ǽɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [sä.män̪.d̪ǽɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [sä.män̪.d̪ǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading? samandar
Dari reading? samandar
Iranian reading? samandar
Tajik reading? samandar

Noun
Dari سمندر
Iranian Persian
Tajik самандар, саламандр

سَمَنْدَر • (samandar)

  1. salamander
    • 9th century, Rudaki
      به آتش درون بر مثال سمندر
      به آب اندرون بر مثال نهنگان
      ba âtaš darôn bar misâl-î samadar, ba âb andarôn bar misâl-î nahangân
      in fire like a salamander, in water like a whale
  2. a mythological fire-dwelling creature which will die should it leave the fire

Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: səməndər
  • → Malay: semandar
  • → Ottoman Turkish: سمندر (semender)
    • Turkish: semender

References
  1. Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سام”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
  2. Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “آذرشین”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
  3. Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سمندر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi سمندر (samundar /⁠smndr⁠/), a semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit समुद्र (samudra). Doublet of سَمُدْر (samudr).

Pronunciation

Noun

سَمُنْدَر • (samundar) f (Hindi spelling समंदर)

  1. sea, ocean
    Synonyms: ساگَر (sāgar), بَحَر (bahar)
  2. (figuratively) vast; boundless; limitless (entity, land etc.)

Usage notes

Samundar is standard Urdu, although Fallon (repeated by Shams-ud-Din Farooqi) notes that samundar is prevalent in the Eastern [Indian] provinces (states), such as UP. Samandar (not to be confused with the noun meaning 'salamander') is considered dialectal which is prevalent in Punjabic Urdu and Delhi Urdu, and neighbouring regions.

Declension
Declension of سمندر
singular plural
direct سمندر (samundar) سمندر (samundar)
oblique سمندر (samundar) سمندروں (samundarō̃)
vocative سمندر (samundar) سمندرو (samundarō)

Descendants

Further reading
  • “سمندر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “سمندر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سمندر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “سمندر”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “سمندر”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “سمندر”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu سمندر (samandar).

Noun

سمندر (samandar)

  1. sea
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