जम्बीर

Uncertain, though probably a substrate loanword from a Munda language.^[1] Other theories link the word to the Vedic-attested जाम्बील (jā́mbīla, “saliva (perhaps)”) (itself of unclear origin and interpretation), via an unattested root जम्बी (jambī); the purported semantic link would be "saliva-inducing (sour) fruit" > "citron".^[2]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɐm.biː.ɾɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɐmˈbiː.ɾɐ/

जम्बीर • (jambīra) stem, m

1. the citron tree

जम्बीर • (jambīra) stem, n

1. a citron (fruit)

• • → Burmese: သံပရာ (sampa.ra)

• Monier Williams (1899) “जम्बीर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 412/1.
• Apte, Macdonell (2022) “जम्बीर”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]