chinar

• chenar, cheenar, chinaur, chunar

From Hindustani चिनार / چنار (cinar), from Classical Persian چنار (činār, “Platanus”).

chinar (plural chinars)

1. The tree Platanus orientalis, the oriental plane.
   • 1854, John Claudius Loudon, Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum‎:

     The chinar, or Oriental plane tree, has been cultivated in Persia from the earliest period; and Evelyn states that "a worthy knight, who staid at Ispahan when that famous city was infected with a raging pestilence, told" him "that, since they have planted a greater number of these noble treees about it, the plague has not come nigh their dwellings."

   • 2007 October 26, Holland Cotter, “Treasures From a Land in Tumult”, in New York Times‎:

     The lakes, the gardens, the chinars golden in autumn, the Himalayas all around.

   • 2011, Environment Chronicles: the best of TerraGreen‎, page 57:

     I too felt that the government has not made judicious use of its powers to curb the felling of chinars.

• “chinar”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “cheenar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 187.

• Ranchi, archin, chiRNA, chrain, inarch