Word.ws English Dictionary

zamburak

/ˈzʌmbʊɹʌk/

zamburak noun: a small cannon supported by a swiveled rest, especially as mounted on the back of a camel.

zamburak: a small cannon supported by a swiveled rest, especially as mounted on the back of a camel
Image: Alexander Orlovsky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

zamburak (plural zamburaks)

  1. A small cannon supported by a swiveled rest, especially as mounted on the back of a camel.
    • Sadat Khan was drawn to an ambush about three to four miles east of the Mughal camp at a place known as Kunjpura where 3,000 Persian cavalry with a large number of zamburaks had prepared an ambush.2011, Kaushik Roy, War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849

Forms of zamburak

pluralzamburaks
alternative formzumbooruk
alternative formzomboruk

Origin of zamburak

From Hindi ज़ंबूरक (zambūrak) / Urdu زنبورک (zambūrak), from Classical Persian زنبورک (zanbūrak), from زنبور (zanbūr, “hornet”), from Arabic زُنْبُور (zunbūr, “hornet”).

Words formed from zamburak

  • zamburakchi

Questions about zamburak

What does zamburak mean?
Zamburak means a small cannon supported by a swiveled rest, especially as mounted on the back of a camel.
What part of speech is zamburak?
Zamburak is a noun.
How do you pronounce zamburak?
Zamburak is pronounced /ˈzʌmbʊɹʌk/.
What is the plural of zamburak?
The plural of zamburak is zamburaks.

Words near zamburak in the dictionary

  1. zambuks
  2. zambuq
  3. zambuqs
  4. zambuquo
  5. zambuquos
  6. zamburak
  7. zamburaks
  8. Zamenhof
  9. Zamenhofian
  10. Zamfara
  11. zami

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zamburak (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “zamburak.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/zamburak. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.