سنبوسه
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Persian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- سمبوسه (sambuse)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle Persian *sambōsag, which passed into Arabic as سَنْبُوسَق (sanbūsaq), سَنْبُوسَج (sanbūsaj), سَنْبُوسَك (sanbūsak).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [san.boː.sa]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sæm.buː.se]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [säm.bɵ.sä]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | sanbōsa |
Dari reading? | sanbōsa |
Iranian reading? | sanbuse |
Tajik reading? | sanbüsa |
Noun
[edit]سنبوسه • (sanbuse) (plural سنبوسهها (sanbuse-hâ))
- a kind of samosa (an Iranian food with a “triangular” shape)
- headscarf (a square mantle which women wear doubled into a triangular form)
- (archaic) pyramid
- Synonym: هرم (heram)
- (by extension) anything triangular
Descendants
[edit]- Tajik: самбӯса (sambüsa)
- → Arabic: سَنْبُوسَة (sanbūsa)
- → Gujarati: સમોસું (samosũ)
- → Hindustani:
- → Ngazidja Comorian: samɓusa
- → Somali: sambuus
- → Swahili: sambusa
- → Malagasy: sambosa
- → Uyghur: سامسا (samsa)
References
[edit]- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سنبوسه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul