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

• sambhar, sambhur, sambur
• sambre (obsolete)

sambar (plural sambars)

1. (zoology) A Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).

• (Rusa unicolor): Cervus unicolor (dated)

From Tamil சாம்பார் (cāmpār), from Marathi सांभार (sāmbhār)/सांबार (sāmbār, “curry”), from Old Marathi सांबार (sāṃbāra), from Sanskrit सम्भार (sambhārá, “materials required for a particular purpose, provision; collection of spices”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *sambʰārás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sambʰārás, from Proto-Indo-European *sem-bʰor-ó-s, from *sem- (“together, one”) +‎ *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”) +‎ *-ós (deverbal suffix). Doublet of Anbar and ambar.

sambar (uncountable)

1. (cooking) 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.
   • 2017 July 12, Sanjiv Khamgaonkar, “40 Mumbai foods we can’t live without”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     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.

• Sambar deer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sambar (dish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cervus unicolor on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Abrams, Bamars, abrams, ambars

< Hindi सांभर (sāmbhar)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑmbɑr/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝mbɑ̝r]
• Rhymes: -ɑmbɑr
• Syllabification^(key): sam‧bar
• Hyphenation^(key): sam‧bar

sambar

1. sambar, Rusa unicolor (species of deer)

Inherited from Malay sambar.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsambar/ [ˈsam.bar]
• Rhymes: -ambar
• Syllabification: sam‧bar

sambar

1. to catch

• “sambar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From samba +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: sam‧bar

sambar (first-person singular present sambo, first-person singular preterite sambei, past participle sambado)

1. (intransitive) to samba
   • 1970, “Tá Chegando Fevereiro”, performed by Os Originais do Samba:

     Tá chegando o mês de fevereiro, / Acabou o meu dinheiro, / e já não sei como vou fazer / Para com ela ir brincar, / sem dinheiro pra gastar, / como vou sambar?

     February is coming / My money ran out, / and now I don't know what I'll do / To go out with her, / without money to spend, / How will I samba?

• “sambar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025