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ambar

ambar noun: any of various kinds of subterranean or barn-like granary, depending on context, in Iran, Turkey, Russia or the Balkans.

Noun

ambar (plural ambars)

  1. (rare) Any of various kinds of subterranean or barn-like granary, depending on context, in Iran, Turkey, Russia or the Balkans.
    • Generally the small granary (which the colonists referred to by its russian name, ambar), [existed. ... The oven's] auxiliary structure was as common to a home site as the principal abode, the barn, and the ambar.1977, Fred C. Koch, The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present, pages 78–79
    • 57. Shortly after the coming of the American administrators it was found that one of the Tehran ambars had through lack of proper disinfection and ventilation become infected with weevils. [...] 58. The chief of the ambar had also previously requested authority to issue in small quantities 5,000...1985, British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: From the First to the Second World War. Series B, Turkey, Iran, and the Middle East...

Proper noun capitalized: Ambar

Ambar

  1. A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.

ambar meaning in Tamil

ambar in Tamil

ராட்டை

Examples of ambar in a sentence

  • Shortly after the coming of the American administrators it was found that one of the Tehran ambars had through lack of proper disinfection and ventilation become infected with weevils. [...] 58.1985, British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: From the First to the Second...
  • Larger quantities of grain were kept in an ambar, a sub-terranean storage space aout three meters deep. [...] At the entrance of the ambar dung cakes were put to deter insects.2003, Willem M. Floor, Agriculture in Qajar Iran, page 231:
  • The ambar is built from logs or thick planks well and tightly adhering to each other.2004, Petar Vlahović, Serbia: the country, people, life, customs, page 194:

Forms of ambar

Noun
pluralambars
Proper noun
alternative formAmber

Origin of ambar

Some uses are directly from Persian انبار (anbâr), others are via Turkish ambar, Serbo-Croatian а̏мба̄р, Russian амба́р (ambár), Volga German Ambar, etc. Doublet of sambar.

Borrowed from Sanskrit अम्बर (ambara).

Questions about ambar

What does ambar mean?
Ambar means any of various kinds of subterranean or barn-like granary, depending on context, in Iran, Turkey, Russia or the Balkans.
What is ambar in Tamil?
Ambar in Tamil is ராட்டை. See Ambar meaning in Tamil.
How do you use ambar in a sentence?
Shortly after the coming of the American administrators it was found that one of the Tehran ambars had through lack of proper disinfection and ventilation become infected with weevils. [...] 58.
What part of speech is ambar?
Ambar can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of ambar?
The plural of ambar is ambars.

Words near ambar in the dictionary

  1. amban
  2. Ambangonan
  3. Ambani
  4. Ambanis
  5. ambans
  6. ambar
  7. ambaree
  8. ambarees
  9. ambarella
  10. ambarellas
  11. ambari

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ambar (page history and authors); Ambar (page history and authors); ambar (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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