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

Persian

Alternative forms

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

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.bǽɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰäm.bǽɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) 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 (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 592b
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