سنبل

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sun.bul/

Noun

سُنْبُل • (sunbul) m (collective, singulative سُنْبُلَة f (sunbula), plural سَنَابِل (sanābil))

  1. ear, spike (of a crop)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:261:
      مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ يُنْفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُم فِي سَبِيلِ اللّٰهِ كَمَثَلِ حَبَّةٍ أَنْبَتَت سَبْعَ سَنَابِلَ فِي كُلِّ سُنْبُلَةٍ مِئَةُ حَبَّةٍ
      maṯalu llaḏīna yunfiqūna ʔamwālahum fī sabīli llāhi ka-maṯali ḥabbatin ʔanbatat sabʕa sanābila fī kulli sunbulatin miʔatu ḥabbatin
      Those who spend their wealth in the way of God are like a grain which grows seven ears, (and) in each ear a hundred grains
  2. Virgo (a star constellation)
  3. aromatic plant with ear-forming flowers, spikenard, Nardostachys spp., Valeriana spp., Hyacinthus spp. and the like

Declension

Declension of noun سُنْبُل (sunbul)
collective basic collective triptote
indefinite definite construct
informal سُنْبُل
sunbul 		السُّنْبُل
as-sunbul 		سُنْبُل
sunbul
nominative سُنْبُلٌ
sunbulun 		السُّنْبُلُ
as-sunbulu 		سُنْبُلُ
sunbulu
accusative سُنْبُلًا
sunbulan 		السُّنْبُلَ
as-sunbula 		سُنْبُلَ
sunbula
genitive سُنْبُلٍ
sunbulin 		السُّنْبُلِ
as-sunbuli 		سُنْبُلِ
sunbuli
singulative singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
indefinite definite construct
informal سُنْبُلَة
sunbula 		السُّنْبُلَة
as-sunbula 		سُنْبُلَة
sunbulat
nominative سُنْبُلَةٌ
sunbulatun 		السُّنْبُلَةُ
as-sunbulatu 		سُنْبُلَةُ
sunbulatu
accusative سُنْبُلَةً
sunbulatan 		السُّنْبُلَةَ
as-sunbulata 		سُنْبُلَةَ
sunbulata
genitive سُنْبُلَةٍ
sunbulatin 		السُّنْبُلَةِ
as-sunbulati 		سُنْبُلَةِ
sunbulati
dual indefinite definite construct
informal سُنْبُلَتَيْن
sunbulatayn 		السُّنْبُلَتَيْن
as-sunbulatayn 		سُنْبُلَتَيْ
sunbulatay
nominative سُنْبُلَتَانِ
sunbulatāni 		السُّنْبُلَتَانِ
as-sunbulatāni 		سُنْبُلَتَا
sunbulatā
accusative سُنْبُلَتَيْنِ
sunbulatayni 		السُّنْبُلَتَيْنِ
as-sunbulatayni 		سُنْبُلَتَيْ
sunbulatay
genitive سُنْبُلَتَيْنِ
sunbulatayni 		السُّنْبُلَتَيْنِ
as-sunbulatayni 		سُنْبُلَتَيْ
sunbulatay
paucal (3-10) sound feminine paucal
indefinite definite construct
informal سُنْبُلَات
sunbulāt 		السُّنْبُلَات
as-sunbulāt 		سُنْبُلَات
sunbulāt
nominative سُنْبُلَاتٌ
sunbulātun 		السُّنْبُلَاتُ
as-sunbulātu 		سُنْبُلَاتُ
sunbulātu
accusative سُنْبُلَاتٍ
sunbulātin 		السُّنْبُلَاتِ
as-sunbulāti 		سُنْبُلَاتِ
sunbulāti
genitive سُنْبُلَاتٍ
sunbulātin 		السُّنْبُلَاتِ
as-sunbulāti 		سُنْبُلَاتِ
sunbulāti
plural of variety basic broken plural diptote
indefinite definite construct
informal سَنَابِل
sanābil 		السَّنَابِل
as-sanābil 		سَنَابِل
sanābil
nominative سَنَابِلُ
sanābilu 		السَّنَابِلُ
as-sanābilu 		سَنَابِلُ
sanābilu
accusative سَنَابِلَ
sanābila 		السَّنَابِلَ
as-sanābila 		سَنَابِلَ
sanābila
genitive سَنَابِلَ
sanābila 		السَّنَابِلِ
as-sanābili 		سَنَابِلِ
sanābili

Descendants

  • → Amharic: ሰንበል (sänbäl, “ear”), ሰንቡል (sänbul, “spikenard”), ስንቡል (sənbul, “spikenard”)
  • → Azerbaijani: sünbül
  • → Ge'ez: ሰንብል (sänbəl, “ear”), ሰንበል (sänbäl, “ear”), ሰንቢል (sänbil, “spikenard”), ሰንቡል (sänbul, “spikenard”)
  • → Classical Persian: سُنْبُل (sunbul)
  • → Spanish: azúmbar
  • → Tigre: ስንቡል (sənbul, “spikenard”)

References

  • H7641 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سَبَلٌ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 281
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 178–179
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 484, 505
  • Leslau, Wolf (1938) Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 280
  • Olmo Lete, Gregorio del with Sanmartín, Joaquín and Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015) “سنبل”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 793

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سنبل (sunbul).

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): [symˈbyl]
  • (dialectal, vulgar) IPA(key): [zymˈbyl]

Noun

سنبل • (sümbül)

  1. hyacinth, any plant of the genus Hyacinthus
  2. curly locks and ringlets of a boy or girl

Derived terms

  • سنبلو (sümbüli, “hyacinthine”)

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُنْبُل (sunbul).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sunbul
Dari reading? sunbul
Iranian reading? sonbol
Tajik reading? sunbul

Noun

سنبل • (sonbol)

  1. hyacinth
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 163:
      آنرا که چون تو لاله رخی در سرا بود
      میلش بدیدن گل و سنبل چرا بود
      ān rā ki čūn tō lāla ruxī dar sarā buwad
      maylaš ba-dīdan-i gul u sunbul čirā buwad
      For someone with a tulip-cheeked [beauty] like you in his house,
      Why should he want to see the rose and the hyacinth?
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. (poetic, figurative) lock of beautiful dark hair

Descendants

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