צנובר
Hebrew
Alternative forms
- (standard) צְנוֹבָר (tsnovár)
Etymology
Borrowed from South Levantine Arabic صنوبر (ṣnōbar), from Arabic صَنَوْبَر (ṣanawbar).
Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /t͡snoˈbaʁ/
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈt͡snobaʁ/
Noun
צְנוֹבָּר • (tsnobár) m (Israel)
- pine nut (the edible seed of any of several species of evergreen pine, especially Pinus pinea, Pinus cembra, and Pinus cembroides)
References
- “צנובר” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Further reading
- צנובר on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
- Klein, Ernest (1987) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 551c