Sinbad

English

Alternative forms

• Sindbad

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سِنْدِبَاد (sindibād), from Middle Persian (compare Persian سندباد (sendbâd)), possibly borrowed from Sanskrit सिद्धपथ (siddhapatha, “path of the Blessed”).

According to folk etymology, from سند (send) +‎ باد (bâd), whence also the Arabic هِنْدِبَاد (hindibād).

Proper noun

Sinbad

1. (fiction) A fictional sailor, the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin, who encountered monsters and magic while travelling the seas east of Africa and south of Asia.

Derived terms

• Sinbadian

Translations

fictional sailor

• Arabic: سِنْدِبَاد m (sindibād)
• Bengali: সিন্দবাদ (śindobad)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 辛巴達／辛巴达 (Xīnbādá)

• French: Sinbad (fr) m
• Greek: Σεβάχ (el) m (Sevách)
• Hindi: सिंदबाद m (sindbād), सिंबाद m (simbād)
• Hungarian: Szindbád (hu)
• Japanese: シンドバッド (Shindobaddo)
• Korean: 신드바드 (Sindeubadeu)
• Persian: سندباد (fa) (sendbâd, sandbâd)
• Polish: Sindbad (pl) m
• Russian: Синдба́д m (Sindbád)
• Urdu: سندباد m (sindabād)
• Uyghur: سىندىبات (sindibat)

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