زنبور

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Etymology

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    From Aramaic זבּור (zibbūr, hornet), doublet of دَبُّور (dabbūr); cognates with Classical Syriac ܕܒܘܪܐ (debbōrā) and Hebrew דְּבוֹרָה (dvorá).

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    Noun

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    زُنْبُور (zunbūrm (plural زَنَابِير (zanābīr))

    1. hornet
    2. bee
    3. penis
    4. clitoris

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    • Persian: زنبور (zanbur)
      • Middle Armenian: զամբուռ (zambuṙ)

    References

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    • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زنبور”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 257
    • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “زنبور”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1015
    • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “زنبور”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[3] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 605

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      Borrowed from Arabic زَنْبُور (zanbūr). An alternative pronunciation of Modern Standard Arabic زُنْبُور (zunbūr).

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      Classical reading? zanbūr
      Dari reading? zanbūr
      Iranian reading? zanbur
      Tajik reading? zanbür

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      Dari زنبور
      Iranian Persian
      Tajik занбӯр, ору

      زنبور (zanbur) (plural زنبورها (zanbur-hâ))

      1. bee, hornet, wasp
        کندوی زنبورkandu-ye zanburbeehive
        زنبور دنبال گل است.
        zanbur donbâl-e gol ast.
        The bee is looking for flowers.
        به روستا رفت و زنبور پرورش ‌داد.
        be rustâ raft va zanbur parvareš -dâd.
        He went to the countryside and raised bees.
        • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume III, verse 3291:
          زانک کرمنا شد آدم ز اختیار، یم زنبور عسل شد نیم مار
          z-ân ke karramnâ šod âdam z-extiyâr, nim zanbur-e 'asal šod, nim mâr.
          Because We have honoured Man by [the gift of] free-will: half [of him] is honeybee, half is snake.
        • c. 1650, Muḥammad Ṭāhir Ğanī Kašmīrī, translated by Mufti Mudasir Farooqi and Nusrat Bazaz, دیوان:
          زین پیشتر حلاوت شهد اینقدر نبود، زنبور دانم آن لب شیرین مزیده است
          z-in pištar halâvat-e šahd in-qadr na-bud, zanbur dânam ân lab-e širin gazide ast.
          Never before has honey tasted so sweet [as the sweetness of seeing my love]. The bee, I know, has stung that sweet lip.

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