Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sambar

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English

Syllables: sam-bar
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).

noun

A food preparation common in southern India and Sri Lanka, made of vegetables and lentils (usually pigeon peas, also called toor dal) in a spicy tamarind and lentil flour soup base.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"A couple of vegetables, sambar (spicy and sour lentils and vegetables boiled with masalas and spices), rasam (a hot and fiery lentil soup-like dish) and curds (yoghurt) served with heaps of rice and eaten in that order. A non-vegetarian version of the “meals” can be found in “Military” hotels."

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi सांभर (sāmbhar), साँभर (sāmbhar), from Sanskrit शम्बर (śambara, “a kind of deer”).

Origin

Source language: Sanskrit

Word Breakdown

Root: शम्बर, சாம்பார், सांभार, सांबार, सम्भार, *sambʰārás

Usage

Uncountable

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Food.

Inflected Forms

sambars (plural) sambhar (alternative) sambhur (alternative) sambur (alternative) sambre (alternative, obsolete)

Synonyms

Cervus unicolor sambur

Questions

What does sambar mean?: A Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).
Where does sambar come from?: It is traced to Sanskrit.

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