shambar
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A soup originating in Peru, made of wheat grains, fava beans, green peas, chickpeas and dry beans.
Uncountable
noun
Example Sentences
- "For the noon meal they serve the traditional shambar, a corn soup with pieces of potatoes, beans, and pigskin, spiced with a large number of condiments."
- "In Bethlehem, until the end of the nineteenth century, the embroidered shambar was worn on festive occasions, replacing the everyday terbia. […] The shambars of most other areas were not embroidered."
- "Bethlehem women preferred to wear a simpler shambar, without a naqleh, and ornamented only with a dikkeh which had the added refinement that the ends of its fringe were delicately knotted."
- "Women of the region wore a shambar or veil made of black crepe material either dyed red or, more frequently, heavily embroidered in red."