زنبور
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Arabic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- زِنْبَار (zinbār)
- زَنْبُور (zanbūr)
Etymology
[edit]From Aramaic זבּור (zibbūr, “hornet”), doublet of دَبُّور (dabbūr); cognates with Classical Syriac ܕܒܘܪܐ (debbōrā) and Hebrew דְּבוֹרָה (dvorá).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /zun.buːr/
- (colloquial) IPA(key): /zan.buːr/
Noun
[edit]زُنْبُور • (zunbūr) m (plural زَنَابِير (zanābīr))
Declension
[edit]Declension of noun زُنْبُور (zunbūr)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | زُنْبُور zunbūr |
الزُّنْبُور az-zunbūr |
زُنْبُور zunbūr |
Nominative | زُنْبُورٌ zunbūrun |
الزُّنْبُورُ az-zunbūru |
زُنْبُورُ zunbūru |
Accusative | زُنْبُورًا zunbūran |
الزُّنْبُورَ az-zunbūra |
زُنْبُورَ zunbūra |
Genitive | زُنْبُورٍ zunbūrin |
الزُّنْبُورِ az-zunbūri |
زُنْبُورِ zunbūri |
Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
Informal | زُنْبُورَيْن zunbūrayn |
الزُّنْبُورَيْن az-zunbūrayn |
زُنْبُورَيْ zunbūray |
Nominative | زُنْبُورَانِ zunbūrāni |
الزُّنْبُورَانِ az-zunbūrāni |
زُنْبُورَا zunbūrā |
Accusative | زُنْبُورَيْنِ zunbūrayni |
الزُّنْبُورَيْنِ az-zunbūrayni |
زُنْبُورَيْ zunbūray |
Genitive | زُنْبُورَيْنِ zunbūrayni |
الزُّنْبُورَيْنِ az-zunbūrayni |
زُنْبُورَيْ zunbūray |
Plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | زَنَابِير zanābīr |
الزَّنَابِير az-zanābīr |
زَنَابِير zanābīr |
Nominative | زَنَابِيرُ zanābīru |
الزَّنَابِيرُ az-zanābīru |
زَنَابِيرُ zanābīru |
Accusative | زَنَابِيرَ zanābīra |
الزَّنَابِيرَ az-zanābīra |
زَنَابِيرَ zanābīra |
Genitive | زَنَابِيرَ zanābīra |
الزَّنَابِيرِ az-zanābīri |
زَنَابِيرِ zanābīri |
Derived terms
[edit]- اَلْمَسْأَلَةُ الزُّنْبُورِيَّةُ (al-masʔalatu z-zunbūriyyatu)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- 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
Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic زَنْبُور (zanbūr). An alternative pronunciation of Modern Standard Arabic زُنْبُور (zunbūr).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [zan.buːɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [zæm.buːɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [zäm.bɵɾ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | zanbūr |
Dari reading? | zanbūr |
Iranian reading? | zanbur |
Tajik reading? | zanbür |
Noun
[edit]Dari | زنبور |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | занбӯр, ору |
زنبور • (zanbur) (plural زنبورها (zanbur-hâ))
- bee, hornet, wasp
- کندوی زنبور ― kandu-ye zanbur ― beehive
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Middle Armenian: զամբուռ (zambuṙ)
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