simar

• symar

From French simarre (“type of robe”), from Italian cimarra, zimarra. Doublet of chimer.

simar (plural simars)

1. (now rare, historical) A woman's loose, long dress or robe; sometimes specifically, an undergarment or chemise. [from 17th c.]
   • 1816, William Beckford, Vathek, Oxford, published 2013, page 61:

     [T]heir beautiful tresses were braided and incensed; and they were wrapped in symars whiter than alabaster.

2. (obsolete) A light covering; a cloak or mantle. [19th c.]
3. (Christianity) A type of ecclestiastical vestment, similar to a cassock. [from 18th c.]

• Mairs, Maris, Masri, Misra, RAIMs, Samir, amirs, raims, sirma

• summar

From Arabic سَمَار‎ (samār).

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈmaːr/

simar m (collective, singulative simara)

1. soft rush (Juncus effusus)