سنبل

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Arabic

سُنْبُلُ قَمْحٍ
سُنْبُلHyacinthus orientalis

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Noun

سُنْبُل (sunbulm (collective, singulative سُنْبُلَة f (sunbula), plural سَنَابِل (sanābil))

  1. ear, spike (of a crop)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:261:
      مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ يُنْفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُم فِي سَبِيلِ اللّٰهِ كَمَثَلِ حَبَّةٍ أَنْبَتَت سَبْعَ سَنَابِلَ فِي كُلِّ سُنْبُلَةٍ مِئَةُ حَبَّةٍ
      maṯalu llaḏīna yunfiqūna ʔamwālahum fī sabīli llāhi ka-maṯali ḥabbatin ʔanbatat sabʕa sanābila fī kulli sunbulatin miʔatu ḥabbatin
      Those who spend their wealth in the way of God are like a grain which grows seven ears, (and) in each ear a hundred grains
  2. Virgo (a star constellation)
  3. aromatic plant with ear-forming flowers, spikenard, Nardostachys spp., Valeriana spp., Hyacinthus spp. and the like

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References

  • H7641 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سَبَلٌ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 281
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 178–179
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 484, 505
  • Leslau, Wolf (1938) Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 280
  • Olmo Lete, Gregorio del with Sanmartín, Joaquín and Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015) “سنبل”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 793

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سنبل (sunbul).

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Noun

سنبل (sümbül)

  1. hyacinth, any plant of the genus Hyacinthus
  2. curly locks and ringlets of a boy or girl

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Persian

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سنبل

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُنْبُل (sunbul).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sunbul
Dari reading? sunbul
Iranian reading? sonbol
Tajik reading? sunbul

Noun

سنبل (sonbol)

  1. hyacinth
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 163:
      آنرا که چون تو لاله رخی در سرا بود
      میلش بدیدن گل و سنبل چرا بود
      ān rā ki čūn tō lāla ruxī dar sarā buwad
      maylaš ba-dīdan-i gul u sunbul čirā buwad
      For someone with a tulip-cheeked like you in his house,
      Why should he want to see the rose and the hyacinth?
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. (poetic, figurative) lock of beautiful dark hair

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