سنبوسه

Persian

Alternative forms

سمبوسه (sambuse)

Etymology

From Middle Persian *sambōsag (see there for more).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /san.boː.ˈsa/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säm.boː.sä]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säm.boː.sä]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säm.bʊː.sä]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæm.buː.se]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säm.bɵ.sä]

Readings
Classical reading^?	sanbōsa
Dari reading^?	sanbōsa
Iranian reading^?	sanbuse
Tajik reading^?	sanbüsa

Noun

سنبوسه • (sanbuse) (plural سنبوسه‌ها (sanbuse-hâ))

sambuseh (Iranian pastry with a triangular shape, similar to the South Asian samosa)
headscarf (a square mantle which women wear doubled into a triangular form)
(archaic) pyramid
Synonym: هرم (heram)
(by extension) anything triangular

Descendants

Tajik: самбӯса (sambüsa)
→ Arabic: سَنْبُوسَة (sanbūsa)
→ Gujarati: સમોસું (samosũ)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: समोसा (samosā)
- → English: samosa
  - → Japanese: サモサ (samosa)
  - → Korean: 사모사 (samosa)
- → Malayalam: സമോസ (samōsa)
- → Mauritian Creole: samousa
- → Réunion Creole French: samousa
  - → French: samoussa
- → Tamil: சமோசா (camōcā)
- → Telugu: సమోస (samōsa)
Urdu: سموسہ (samosā)
→ Kazakh: самса (samsa)
→ Ngazidja Comorian: samɓusa
→ Russian: самса́ (samsá) (via Central Asian Turkic)
→ Somali: sambuus
→ Swahili: sambusa
- → Malagasy: sambosa
→ Uyghur: سامسا (samsa)
→ Uzbek: somsa

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سنبوسه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul