sâmbure
See also: sãmbure
Romanian
Alternative forms
- sîmbure (old orthography)
Etymology
One theory is that it comes from Albanian: compare sumbull, dialectal variant of standard thumbull (“button”), diminutive of thumb (“sting”). Alternatively, it may be a substratum word, akin to the Albanian one, or from a Vulgar Latin root *sumbola, symbola, from Latin symbolus, from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”).[1] Compare Aromanian sãmburi, shambãrã, sãmburã.
Noun
sâmbure m (plural sâmburi)
- pit (of a fruit)
- (figurative) the central, core, or essential part of something
Usage notes
See also
References
- ^ Romanian Explanatory Dictionary http://dexonline.ro/definitie/sambure
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