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sambhar

sambhar is the alternative form of sambar.

Meaning of sambar

Noun (1)

sambar (plural sambars)

  1. A Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).
    Synonyms:
    Cervus unicolor

Noun (2)

sambar (uncountable)

  1. A food preparation common in southern India and Sri Lanka, made of vegetables and lentils (usually pigeon peas, also called toor dal) in a spicy tamarind and lentil flour soup base.
    • A couple of vegetables, sambar (spicy and sour lentils and vegetables boiled with masalas and spices), rasam (a hot and fiery lentil soup-like dish) and curds (yoghurt) served with heaps of rice and eaten in that order. A non-vegetarian version of the “meals” can be found in “Military” hotels.2017 July 12, Sanjiv Khamgaonkar, “40 Mumbai foods we can’t live without”, in CNN

Forms of sambhar

pluralsambhars

Questions about sambhar

What is sambhar the alternative form of?
Sambhar is the alternative form of sambar.

Words near sambhar in the dictionary

  1. sambazas
  2. Sambel
  3. Sambells
  4. Sambellses
  5. Sambhal
  6. sambhar
  7. sambhars
  8. Sambhavana
  9. Sambhavna
  10. sambhogakaya
  11. sambhogakayas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sambhar (page history and authors); sambar (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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