صنوبر

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Arabic

صَنَوْبَر

Etymology

From the root ص ن ب ر (ṣ-n-b-r) meaning “bitter cold”, “weather requiring hardiness to endure”, a variant of ص ب ر (ṣ-b-r)enduring”, “patient”, “persevering”; so named for the tree being a winter-enduring evergreen tree.

Pronunciation

Noun

صَنَوْبَر (ṣanawbarm (collective, singulative صَنَوْبَرَة f (ṣanawbara))

  1. pine, pine tree
  2. pine nut

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Hijazi Arabic

صنوبر

Etymology

From Arabic صَنَوْبَر (ṣanawbar).

Pronunciation

Noun

صُنوبَر (ṣunōbarm (collective, singulative صُنُوبَرَة f (ṣunōbara))

  1. pine, pine tree
  2. pine nut

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَنَوْبَر (ṣanawbar, pine).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sanawbar
Dari reading? sanawbar
Iranian reading? senowbar
Tajik reading? sanavbar

Noun

صنوبر (senowbar)

  1. poplar
  2. (archaic) pine
    Synonym: کاج (kâj)
  3. (poetic, figurative, mainly in compounds) the slender and graceful beloved
    Synonym: سرو (sarv, literally cypress)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 11”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
      چندان بود کرشمه و نازِ سهی‌قدان
      کآید به جلوه سرو صنوبرخرام ما
      čandān buwad kirišma u nāz-i sahī-qaddān
      k-āyad ba jalwa sarw-i sanawbar-xarām-i mā
      The coyness and coquetry of those straight-standing ones last only so long
      Until my cypress comes in splendor with pine-like stride.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

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South Levantine Arabic

صنوبر

Etymology

From Arabic صَنَوْبَر (ṣanawbar).

Pronunciation

Noun

صنوبر (ṣnōbarm (collective)

  1. pine nuts
  2. pines, pine trees
    شجرة صنوبرšajret ṣnōbara pine tree

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian صَنَوْبَر (sanawbar), from Arabic صَنَوْبَر (ṣanawbar).

Pronunciation

Noun

صَنوبَر (sanobarm (Hindi spelling सनोबर)

  1. a conifer; a pine tree

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