צנובר

Hebrew

Alternative forms

• (standard) צְנוֹבָר (tsnovár)

Etymology

Borrowed from South Levantine Arabic صنوبر (ṣnōbar), from Arabic صَنَوْبَر (ṣanawbar).

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /t͡snoˈbaʁ/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡snobaʁ/

Noun

צְנוֹבָּר • (tsnobár) m (Israel)

1. pine nut (the edible seed of any of several species of evergreen pine, especially Pinus pinea, Pinus cembra, and Pinus cembroides)

References

• “צנובר” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

• צנובר on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he
• Klein, Ernest (1987) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 551c