شنبلیله

Persian

شنبلیله

Alternative forms

• شنبلیل (šanbalil), شنبلید (šambalid), شنبلیت (šambalit), شملید (šamlid), شملیت (šamlit), شملیز (šamliz), شلمیز (šalmiz)
• شملی (šamli) (dialectal, Kazerun)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (šmblyt /⁠šamblīt, šamblīd⁠/), [script needed] (šmblytk' /⁠šambalīdag⁠/, “fenugreek”), whence also Old Armenian շամղիտակ (šamłitak) and Arabic شِمْلِيدَج (šimlīdaj). Ultimately borrowed from a Semitic language. Compare Jewish Babylonian Aramaic שִׁבְּלִילְתָא (šibbəlīləṯā), Classical Syriac ܫܒܠܝܠܬܐ (šebbəlīltā) and ܦܠܝܠܬܐ (pəlīltā), all from Akkadian 𒊭𒄠𒁀𒇷𒅋𒌈 (/⁠šambaliltum⁠/), 𒊭𒁀𒇸𒌅 (/⁠šabbaliltu⁠/), 𒊭𒄠𒈬 𒁀𒅋𒌈 (/⁠šammu baliltu⁠/, “fenugreek”, literally “mixture grass”).

The word is found in other modern Iranian languages: compare Harzani [script needed] (šunbulla), Badakhshan Tajik шалит (šalit, “orach”), Wakhi šlit, šliṭ (“Chenopodium album”), Shiraz Persian شملیز (šamliz) and Central Kurdish شمڵی (şimllî).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃæmbæliːˈlæ/
• (Iran) IPA^(key): /ʃæmbæliːˈle/

Noun

شنبلیله • (šanbalile)

1. fenugreek
2. colchicum (at least variants ending in -id or -it)

   Synonyms: پیازسگ (peyâz-e sak), سورنجان (surenjân), گل حضرتی (gol-e hazrati), گل نوروزیه (gol-e nowruziye)

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: şəmbəllə, şənbəllə, şəmbələ
  • → Armenian: շամբալա (šambala)
  • → Russian: шамбала́ (šambalá)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “شنبلیله”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “šambalīdag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “շամղիտակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 492a
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “հուլպայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 121a
• Asatryan, Gaṙnik (1990) “Ardyokʻ ka^?n haykakan pʻoxaṙutʻyunner nor parskerenum [Are There Armenian Borrowings in New Persian?]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎^[1] (in Armenian), number 3, pages 139–144
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[2] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 475–481
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• Steblin-Kamenskij, I.M. (1999) “šlit, šliṭ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ vaxanskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Wakhi Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskoje Vostokovedenije, →ISBN, pages 331–332
• “šambaliltu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[4], volume 17, Š, part 1, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1989, page 310f
• Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “շէնպէլիյլ(է)”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 356a
• Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “շէմլիյտ”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 354a