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samboo

samboo is the archaic 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 samboo

pluralsamboos

Questions about samboo

What is samboo the archaic form of?
Samboo is the archaic form of sambar.

Words near samboo in the dictionary

  1. samboes
  2. Samboism
  3. sambok
  4. samboks
  5. sambol
  6. samboo
  7. sambook
  8. sambooks
  9. samboos
  10. samboosak
  11. samboosaks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: samboo (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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