Reconstruction:Middle Persian/sambōsag

Middle Persian

Noun

*sambōsag

1. a triangular-shaped food

Descendants

• Classical Persian: سَنْبوسَه (sanbōsa)
  • Tajik: самбӯса (sambüsa)
  • → Arabic: سَنْبُوسَة (sanbūsa)
  • → Gujarati: સમોસું (samosũ)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: समोसा (samosā)

    • → English: samosa
      • → Japanese: サモサ (samosa)
      • → Korean: 사모사 (samosa)
    • → Malayalam: സമോസ (samōsa)
    • → Mauritian Creole: samousa
    • → Réunion Creole French: samousa
      • → French: samoussa
    • → Tamil: சமோசா (camōcā)
    • → Telugu: సమోస (samōsa)

    Urdu: سموسہ (samosā)

  • → Kazakh: самса (samsa)
  • → Ngazidja Comorian: samɓusa
  • → Russian: самса́ (samsá) (via Central Asian Turkic)
  • → Somali: sambuus
  • → Swahili: sambusa
    • → Malagasy: sambosa
  • → Uyghur: سامسا (samsa)
  • → Uzbek: somsa
• → Arabic: سَنْبُوسَج (sanbūsaj), سَنْبُوسَق (sanbūsaq), سَمْبُوسَك (sambūsak)

References

• Petits Propos Culinaires‎^[1], 2005, page 78: “Presumably Middle Persian *sambōsag, from se ‘three’ (referring to the triangular shape) and *ambōs ‘bread with seeds in it’.”