زنبق

Arabic

زَنْبَق

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (cmbk' /*čambak/) (whence Old Armenian ճանբակ (čanbak)), from Sanskrit चम्पक (campaka), from Malayo-Polynesian, reflected in Javanese cĕmpaka, Sundanese campaka, Balinese campaka, Minangkabau campagǒ, Madurese compaka, Makasar campaga, Buginese cepaga, Tombulu sampaka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zan.baq/

Noun

زَنْبَق • (zanbaq) m (collective, singulative زَنْبَقَة‎ f (zanbaqa), plural زَنَابِق‎ (zanābiq))

  1. lily
  2. iris

Declension

Descendants

  • → Persian: زنبق‎ (see there for further descendants)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • زانبق‎ (zambak), زنباق‎ (zambak)

Etymology

From Persian زنبق‎ (zanbaq).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zɑmˈbɑk/

Noun

زنبق • (zambak)

  1. lily
  2. iris

Descendants

  • Turkish: zambak
  • → Albanian: zambak
  • → Aromanian: zãmbácã
  • → Bulgarian: замба́к (zambák), самба́к (sambák), дзъмба́к (dzǎmbák), тъмба́к (tǎmbák), зомба́к (zombák)
  • → Greek: ζαμπάκι (zampáki), τσαμπάκι (tsampáki)
  • → Macedonian: замбак (zambak)
  • → Romanian: zambác
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: замбак
    Latin script: zambak

References

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic زَنْبَق‎ (zanbaq), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cmbk' /čambak/) (whence Old Armenian ճանբակ (čanbak)), related to Urdu چمپا‎ / Hindi चंपा (campā), Punjabi چمپا‎ (čampā, “jasmine in the broad sense”), which has been borrowed into Persian as چمپا‎ (čampâ, “jasmine”). All via Sanskrit चम्पक (campaka) from Javanese cĕmpaka or another Malayo-Polynesian language, as reflected in Sundanese campaka, Balinese campaka, Minangkabau campagǒ, Madurese compaka, Makasar campaga, Buginese cepaga, Tombulu sampaka.

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /zamˈbaq/

Noun

زنبق • (zanbaq) (plural زنبق‌ها‎ (zanbaq-hâ))

  1. the flower iris

Descendants

  • → Azerbaijani: zambaq, zanbaq
  • → Georgian: ზამბახი (zambaxi)
  • → Middle Armenian: զամբաղ (zambał), զամպաղ (zampał), զամպախ (zampax)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: زنبق‎ (zambak), زانبق‎ (zambak), زنباق‎ (zambak)
    • Turkish: zambak
    • → Albanian: zambak
    • → Aromanian: zãmbácã
    • → Bulgarian: замба́к (zambák), самба́к (sambák), дзъмба́к (dzǎmbák), тъмба́к (tǎmbák), зомба́к (zombák)
    • → Greek: ζαμπάκι (zampáki), τσαμπάκι (tsampáki)
    • → Macedonian: замбак (zambak)
    • → Romanian: zambác
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: замбак
      Latin script: zambak

See also

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “ճանբակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 183b
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 187
  • Lagarde, Paul de (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 1371, page 96
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