انبار

See also: انباز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آنبار (anbar, ambar)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *sem-bʰor-ó-s

Proto-Indo-Iranian *sambʰārás

Proto-Iranian *hambāráh

Old Persian *𐏃𐎶𐎲𐎠𐎼 (hambāraʰ)

Middle Persian [script needed] (hmbʾl /⁠hambār⁠⁠/)

Classical Persian اَنْبَار (anbār)bor.

Ottoman Turkish انبار

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَنْبَار (anbār, “granary, warehouse”).

Noun

انبار • (enbar, anbar, ambar)

1. storehouse, magazine, a building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions

   Synonym: مخزن (mahzen)

2. (agriculture) granary, a storage facility for grain or, sometimes, animal feed

   Synonym: مخزن (mahzen)

3. (nautical) hold, a space for carrying cargo in a ship's compartment

Derived terms

• انبارجی (anbarcı, “storehouse-keeper”)
• انبارلو (anbarlı, “furnished with a storehouse”)
• طوپ انباری (top anbarı, “lower deck of a warship”)
• قرق انبار (kırk anbar, “dealer in marine stores”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ambar
• → Bulgarian: хамбар (hambar)
• → Crimean Tatar: ambar
• → Greek: αμπάρι (ampári)
• → Hungarian: hombár
  • → Romanian: hambar
• → Serbo-Croatian: ȁmbār / а̏мба̄р, hȁmbār / ха̏мба̄р

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “ambar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 230
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “انبار”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 68b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “انبار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 150
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Horreum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 706
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “انبار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 436
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ambar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “انبار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 207

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *sem-bʰor-ó-s

Proto-Indo-Iranian *sambʰārás

Proto-Iranian *hambāráh

Old Persian *𐏃𐎶𐎲𐎠𐎼 (hambāraʰ)

Middle Persian [script needed] (hmbʾl /⁠hambār⁠⁠/)

Persian انبار

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (hmbʾl /⁠hambār⁠⁠/, “store”), from Old Persian *𐏃𐎶𐎲𐎠𐎼 (hambāraʰ), from Proto-Iranian *hambāráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sambʰārás, from Proto-Indo-European *sem-bʰor-ó-s, from *sem- (“together, one”) + *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”) + *-ós (deverbal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔan.ˈbaːr/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.bɑːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.bɑːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.bɑːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.bɔːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæm.bɒːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.bɔɾ]

• Rhymes: -aːr

Readings
Classical reading?	anbār
Dari reading?	anbār
Iranian reading?	anbâr
Tajik reading?	anbor

Noun

اَنْبار • (anbâr) (plural انبارها)

Dari	انبار
Iranian Persian
Tajik	анбор

1. store, warehouse, granary, depot, reservoir

   Synonym: مَخْزَن (maxzan)

Derived terms

• انبار کردن (anbâr kardan)
• انبارخانه (anbârxâne)
• انباردار (anbârdâr)
• انباردن (anbârdan)
• انباری (anbâri)
• انباریدن (anbâridan)
• تلمبار (talambâr)

Descendants

• → Arabic: أَنْبَار (ʔanbār), عَنْبَر (ʕanbar)
  • → English: Al Anbar, English: Anbar
• → Azerbaijani: anbar, انبار
• → Belarusian: амбар (ambar) (via a Turkic language)
• → English: ambar (rare; in some cases a direct borrowing, in others via another language)
• → Georgian: ამბარი (ambari)
• → Hindustani:
  • → Devanagari script: अम्बार (ambār)
  • → Arabic script: اَن٘بار (ambār)
• → Kazakh: амбар (ambar)
• → Mongolian: амбаар (ambaar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: انبار (enbar, anbar, ambar), آنبار (anbar, ambar)
  • Turkish: ambar
  • → Bulgarian: хамбар (hambar)
  • → Crimean Tatar: ambar
  • → Greek: αμπάρι (ampári)
  • → Hungarian: hombár
    • → Romanian: hambar
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ȁmbār / а̏мба̄р, hȁmbār / ха̏мба̄р
• → Punjabi:
  • → Gurmukhi script: ਅੰਬਾਰ (ambār)
  • → Shahmukhi script: اَن٘بار (ambār)
• → Russian: амба́р (ambár) (via a Turkic language)
• → Southern Altai: амбар (ambar), алмар (almar)
• → Tatar: амбар (ambar)
• → Ukrainian: амбар (ambar) (via a Turkic language)

Verb

انبار • (anbâr-)

1. present stem form of انباشتن (anbâštan)
2. present stem form of انباریدن (anbâridan)
3. present stem form of انباردن (anbârdan)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971), “ամբար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 149a
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “hambār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian انبار (anbār).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əm.bɑːɾ/

Noun

اَن٘بار • (ambār) m (Hindi spelling अम्बार)

1. heap, pile, stock
2. stack, hoard, collection

References

• “انبار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “انبار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.