chinar
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hindustani चिनार / چنار (cinar), from Classical Persian چنار (činār, “Platanus”).
Noun
[edit]chinar (plural chinars)
- The tree Platanus orientalis, the oriental plane.
- 1854, John Claudius Loudon, Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum[1]:
- The chinar, or Oriental plane tree, has been cultivated in Persia from the earliest period; and Evelyn states that "a worthy knight, who staid at Ispahan when that famous city was infected with a raging pestilence, told" him "that, since they have planted a greater number of these noble treees about it, the plague has not come nigh their dwellings."
- 2007 October 26, Holland Cotter, “Treasures From a Land in Tumult”, in New York Times[2]:
- The lakes, the gardens, the chinars golden in autumn, the Himalayas all around.
- 2011, Environment Chronicles: the best of TerraGreen[3], page 57:
- I too felt that the government has not made judicious use of its powers to curb the felling of chinars.
Translations
[edit]Platanus orientalis
References
[edit]- “chinar”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “cheenar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 187.