цимбора

Borrowed from Hungarian cimbora, from Romanian sâmbră, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *sębrъ. Cognates include Carpathian Rusyn and Ukrainian ці́мбор (címbor) and more distantly Belarusian ся́бар (sjábar).

• IPA^(key): [t͡simˈbɔra]
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Hyphenation: цим‧бо‧ра

цимбора (cimbora) m pers (related adjective цимборски or цимборов)

1. partner, associate, companion

   купел два конї, а вец єдного спущел цимборови ― kupel dva konji, a vec jednoho spuščel cimborovi ― he bought two horses, and then gave one away to his partner

   • 2021 October 23, С. Фейса, “Стретнуце: Юлиян Сабадош, привреднїк зоз Кичинеру у Канади”, in Руске Слово‎^[1]:

     Познєйше з цимбором надумали купиц токарку, або як гваря людзе струґ, робели ноцами, правели и предавали зупчанїки, а кед колеґа надумал пойсц по своєй драги, Юлиян го сплацел и од теди, од 1976. року, то постава його фирма под меном Рапид ґир (Rapid gear).

     Poznjejše z cimborom nadumali kupic tokarku, abo jak hvarja ljudze strug, robeli nocami, praveli i predavali zupčanjiki, a ked kolega nadumal pojsc po svojej drahi, Julijan ho splacel i od tedi, od 1976. roku, to postava joho firma pod menom Rapid gir (Rapid gear).

     Later, he and his partner decided to buy a carpenter's plane, or "strug" as people call it, they would work through nights, making and selling gear wheels, and when his colleague decided to go his own way, Julijan paid him off, and from then on, since 1976, he has been building his company under the name Rapid gir (Rapid gear).

   • 2023 September 17, Лю. Дудаш, “Наш госц: Владимир Балїнт з Руского Керестура”, in Руске Слово‎^[2]:

     Иншак булo, гвари, кед вєдно з цимбором Мирком Барновим камион гонєли по два тижнї, а вец два були дома.

     Inšak bulo, hvari, ked vjedno z cimborom Mirkom Barnovim kamion honjeli po dva tižnji, a vec dva buli doma.

     It was different, he says, when together with his partner Mirko Barnovi, they were driving a truck for two weeks, and only then the two of them were home.

2. friend, buddy

   Synonyms: (poetic) друг (druh), пайташ (pajtaš), приятель (prijatelʹ), товариш (tovariš)

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “цимбора”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy