زنبورک

Persian

Zamburak in ca. 1820

Etymology

From زنبور (zanbur, “wasp”) +‎ ـک (-ak, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

زنبورک • (zanburak)

1. little wasp
2. a kind of crossbow
3. a kind of little cannon, culverin, falconet, zamburak
4. a kind of small arrowhead, as well as an arrow with such a head
5. guimbard, Jew's harp

Derived terms

• کمان زنبورکی (kamân-e zanburaki)

Descendants

• → Georgian: ზამბურაკი (zamburaḳi)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ज़ंबूरक (zambūrak)

  Urdu: زنبورک (zambūrak)

  • → English: zamburak, zumbooruk, zomboruk
• → Ottoman Turkish: زنبرك (zenberek), زمبرك (zemberek), زنبورك (zenbürek), զէնպէրէք (zenberek), զէմպէրէք (zemberek) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: zemberek
  • → Arabic: زُنْبُرُك (zunburuk)
  • → Armenian: զեմպերեկ (zemperek), զա̈մբա̈րա̈ (zämbärä)
  • → Azerbaijani: zənbərək
  • → Macedonian: земберек (zemberek)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зѐмберек, зѐмберик

    Latin script: zèmberek, zèmberik

• → Uyghur: زەمبىرەك (zembirek)

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “زنبورک”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press