shambar

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English

Etymology 1

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Noun

shambar (uncountable)

  1. A soup originating in Peru, made of wheat grains, fava beans, green peas, chickpeas and dry beans.
    • 1975, Robert Jerome Smith, The Art of the Festival, as Exemplified by the Fiesta to the Patroness of Otuzco, La Virgen de la Puerta, page 110:
      For the noon meal they serve the traditional shambar, a corn soup with pieces of potatoes, beans, and pigskin, spiced with a large number of condiments.

Etymology 2

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Noun

shambar (plural shambars)

  1. A ceremonial veil worn in Palestine.
    • 1979, Yedida Kalfon Stillman, Palestinian Costume and Jewelry, page 66:
      In Bethlehem, until the end of the nineteenth century, the embroidered shambar was worn on festive occasions, replacing the everyday terbia. [] The shambars of most other areas were not embroidered.
    • 1994, Shelagh Weir, Palestinian Costume, page 166:
      Bethlehem women preferred to wear a simpler shambar, without a naqleh, and ornamented only with a dikkeh which had the added refinement that the ends of its fringe were delicately knotted.
    • 2013, Jill Condra, Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing Around the World:
      Women of the region wore a shambar or veil made of black crepe material either dyed red or, more frequently, heavily embroidered in red.

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Spanish

Noun

shambar m (plural shambares)

  1. shambar