سنبل

Arabic

سُنْبُلُ قَمْحٍ
سُنْبُلHyacinthus orientalis

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sun.bul/

Noun

سُنْبُل (sunbul) m (collective, singulative سُنْبُلَة f (sunbula), plural سَنَابِل (sanābil))

  1. ear, spike (of a crop)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:261:
      مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ يُنْفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُم فِي سَبِيلِ اللّٰهِ كَمَثَلِ حَبَّةٍ أَنْبَتَت سَبْعَ سَنَابِلَ فِي كُلِّ سُنْبُلَةٍ مِئَةُ حَبَّةٍ
      maṯalu allaḏīna yunfiqūna ʔamwālahum fī sabīli llāhi ka-maṯali ḥabbatin ʔanbatat sabʕa sanābila fī kulli sunbulatin miʔatu ḥabbatin
      Those who spend their wealth in the way of God are like a grain which grows seven ears, (and) in each ear a hundred grains
  2. Virgo (a star constellation)
  3. aromatic plant with ear-forming flowers, spikenard, Nardostachys spp., Valeriana spp., Hyacinthus spp. and the like

Declension

Descendants

  • Amharic: ሰንበል (sänbäl, ear), ሰንቡል (sänbul, spikenard), ስንቡል (sənbul, spikenard)
  • Azerbaijani: sünbül
  • Ge'ez: ሰንብል (sänbəl, ear), ሰንበል (sänbäl, ear), ሰንቢል (sänbil, spikenard), ሰንቡል (sänbul, spikenard)
  • Persian: سنبل (sonbol)
  • Tigre: ስንቡል (sənbul, spikenard)

References

  • H7641 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
  • Freytag, Georg (1833), سَبَلٌ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 281
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 178–179
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 484, 505
  • Leslau, Wolf (1938) Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 280
  • Olmo Lete, Gregorio del; Sanmartín, Joaquín; Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015), “سنبل”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 793

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سنبل (sonbol).

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): [symˈbyl]
  • (dialectal, vulgar) IPA(key): [zymˈbyl]

Noun

سنبل (sümbül)

  1. hyacinth, any plant of the genus Hyacinthus
  2. curly locks and ringlets of a boy or girl

Derived terms

  • سنبلو (sümbüli, hyacinthine)

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

سنبل

Etymology

From Arabic سُنْبُل (sunbul).

Pronunciation

    • (Dari): IPA(key): /sʊmbʊl/

    Noun

    سنبل (sonbol)

    1. hyacinth

    Descendants

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