صنوبر
Arabic

Etymology
From the root ص ن ب ر (ṣ-n-b-r) meaning “bitter cold”, “weather requiring hardiness to endure”, a variant of ص ب ر (ṣ-b-r) “enduring”, “patient”, “persevering”; so named for the tree being a winter-enduring evergreen tree.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sˤa.naw.bar/
- (Hijazi) IPA(key): /sˤu.noː.bar/
- (Palestinian) IPA(key): /snoː.bar/
Noun
صَنَوْبَر • (ṣanawbar) m (collective, singulative صَنَوْبَرَة f (ṣanawbara))
Declension
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Descendants
- → Middle Armenian: սոնոպար (sonopar)
- → Old Georgian: სანობარი (sanobari)
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- → Hebrew: צנובר
References
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “صنوبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 616
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “صنبر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1730-1731
- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 40–47
Hijazi Arabic

Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sˤu.ˈnoː.bar/, [sˤʊ.ˈno̞ː.bar]
Noun
صُنوبَر • (ṣunōbar) m (collective, singulative صُنُوبَرَة f (ṣunōbara))
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [sa.naw.ˈbaɾ]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sä.näw.bǽɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [sä.näw.bǽɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [sä.näw.bǽɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [se.now.bǽɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [sä.näw.bǽɾ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | sanawbar |
| Dari reading? | sanawbar |
| Iranian reading? | senowbar |
| Tajik reading? | sanavbar |
Noun
صنوبر • (senowbar)
- poplar
- (archaic) pine
- Synonym: کاج (kâj)
- (poetic, figurative, mainly in compounds) the slender and graceful beloved
- Synonym: سرو (sarv, literally “cypress”)
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 11”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]:
- چندان بود کرشمه و نازِ سهیقدان
کآید به جلوه سرو صنوبرخرام ما- čandân buwad kirišma wu nâz-i sahî-qaddân
k-âyad ba jalwa sarw-i sanawbar-xarâm-i mâ - The coyness and coquetry of those straight-standing ones last only so long
Until my cypress comes in splendor with pine-like stride.
- čandân buwad kirišma wu nâz-i sahî-qaddân
Descendants
- → Hindi: सनोवर (sanovar), सनोबर (sanobar)
References
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “صنوبر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
South Levantine Arabic

Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Noun
صنوبر • (ṣnōbar) m (collective)
- (collective) pine nuts
- (collective) pines, pine trees
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)