چنبر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چنبر (čanbar, “circle, hoop”).

Noun

چنبر • (çember)

1. hoop, a circular band of wood or metal used to bind a barrel
2. ring, hoop, any solid object in the shape of a circle

   Synonym: حلقه (halka)

Derived terms

• بویون چنبری (boyun çemberi, “collarbone”)
• چنبر قایق (çember kayık, “kind of round-sterned craft”)
• چنبر كچورمك (çember geçirmek, “to put hoops to a thing”)
• چنبرسز (çembersiz, “hoopless”)
• چنبرلتمك (çemberletmek, “to make or let be hooped”)
• چنبرلمك (çemberlemek, “to hoop”)
• چنبرلو (çemberli, “hooped”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çember
• → Albanian: çember
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) չէմպէր (čʻēmpēr), (Van) չա̈մբա̈ր (čʻämbär)
• → Aromanian: cimbér
• → Bulgarian: чембер (čember)
• → Greek: τσεμπέρι (tsempéri)
• → Macedonian: чембер (čember)
• → Romanian: cember, cimbir, cimber, ciumber, ciumbir, gimbir, gimber, giumber, giumbir
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: чѐмбер

  Latin script: čèmber

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çember2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 926
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چنبر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 475
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Circulus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 182
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چنبر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1660
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çember”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چنبر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 731

Persian

Alternative forms

• چَنبَره (čanbare)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (cmbl /⁠čambar⁠/). Akin to Old Armenian ճամբար (čambar, “camp; collar”), Classical Syriac ܨܰܡܒܳܪܳܐ (ṣambārā, “lunate ornament”), Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃam.ˈbaɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.bǽɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.bǽɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.bǽɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.bǽɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰæm.bǽɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.bǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	čambar
Dari reading?	čambar
Iranian reading?	čambar
Tajik reading?	čambar

Noun

چنبر • (čanbar)

1. circle, hoop

Descendants

• → Arabic: شَنْبَر (šanbar)
• → Kazakh: шеңбер (şeñber)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چنبر (çember)
  • Turkish: çember
  • → Albanian: çember
  • → Armenian: (Constantinople) չէմպէր (čʻēmpēr), (Van) չա̈մբա̈ր (čʻämbär)
  • → Aromanian: cimbér
  • → Bulgarian: чембер (čember)
  • → Greek: τσεμπέρι (tsempéri)
  • → Macedonian: чембер (čember)
  • → Romanian: cember, cimbir, cimber, ciumber, ciumbir, gimbir, gimber, giumber, giumbir
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чѐмбер

    Latin script: čèmber

Further reading

• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 186–187
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 21
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “چنبر”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[5] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 592b