چنبر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چنبر (čanbar, circle, hoop).

Noun

چنبر • (çember)

  1. hoop, a circular band of wood or metal used to bind a barrel
  2. ring, hoop, any solid object in the shape of a circle
    Synonym: حلقه (halka)

Derived terms

  • بویون چنبری (boyun çemberi, collarbone)
  • چنبر قایق (çember kayık, kind of round-sterned craft)
  • چنبر كچورمك (çember geçirmek, to put hoops to a thing)
  • چنبرسز (çembersiz, hoopless)
  • چنبرلتمك (çemberletmek, to make or let be hooped)
  • چنبرلمك (çemberlemek, to hoop)
  • چنبرلو (çemberli, hooped)

Descendants

  • Turkish: çember
  • Albanian: çember
  • Armenian: (Constantinople) չէմպէր (čʻēmpēr), (Van) չա̈մբա̈ր (čʻämbär)
  • Aromanian: cimbér
  • Bulgarian: чембер (čember)
  • Greek: τσεμπέρι (tsempéri)
  • Macedonian: чембер (čember)
  • Romanian: cember, cimbir, cimber, ciumber, ciumbir, gimbir, gimber, giumber, giumbir
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чѐмбер
    Latin script: čèmber

Further reading

Persian

Alternative forms

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.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.bǽɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.bǽɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.bǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading? čambar
Dari reading? čambar
Iranian reading? čambar
Tajik reading? čambar

Noun

چنبر • (čanbar)

  1. circle, hoop

Descendants

  • Arabic: شَنْبَر (šanbar)
  • Kazakh: шеңбер (şeñber)
  • Ottoman Turkish: چنبر (çember)
    • Turkish: çember
    • Albanian: çember
    • Armenian: (Constantinople) չէմպէր (čʻēmpēr), (Van) չա̈մբա̈ր (čʻämbär)
    • Aromanian: cimbér
    • Bulgarian: чембер (čember)
    • Greek: τσεμπέρι (tsempéri)
    • Macedonian: чембер (čember)
    • Romanian: cember, cimbir, cimber, ciumber, ciumbir, gimbir, gimber, giumber, giumbir
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: чѐмбер
      Latin script: 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, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 592b
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