زنبور

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • زِنْبَار (zinbār)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zun.buːr/
  • (colloquial) IPA(key): /zan.buːr/

Noun

زُنْبُور (zunbūr) m (plural زَنَابِير (zanābīr))

  1. hornet

Declension

Derived terms

  • اَلْمَسْأَلَةُ الزُّنْبُورِيَّةُ (al-masʔalatu z-zunbūriyyatu)

Descendants

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

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833), زنبور”, 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 257

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic زَنْبُور (zanbūr), an alternative pronunciation of Modern Standard Arabic زُنْبُور (zunbūr).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /zanbɵɾ/

Noun

Dari زنبور
Iranian Persian
Tajik занбӯр (zanbür)

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, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], 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, Mufti Mudasir Farooqi & Nusrat Bazaz, transl., دیوان [Divān]:
      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

Descendants

  • Middle Armenian: զամբուռ (zambuṙ)
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