# زنبق
## Arabic
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (cmbk' /⁠*čambak⁠/) (whence Old Armenian ճանբակ (čanbak)), from Sanskrit चम्पक (campaka), from Malayo-Polynesian, reflected in Javanese cĕmpaka, Sundanese campaka, Balinese campaka, Minangkabau campagǒ, Madurese compaka, Makasar campaga, Buginese cepaga, Tombulu sampaka.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zan.baq/

### Noun

زَنْبَق • (zanbaq) m (collective, singulative زَنْبَقَة f (zanbaqa), plural زَنَابِق (zanābiq))
* lily
* iris

#### Descendants

* → Persian: زنبق (see there for further descendants)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* زانبق (zambak), زنباق (zambak)

### Etymology

From Persian زنبق (zanbaq).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zɑmˈbɑk/

### Noun

زنبق • (zambak)
* lily
* iris

#### Descendants

* Turkish: zambak
* → Albanian: zambak
* → Aromanian: zãmbácã
* → Bulgarian: замба́к (zambák), самба́к (sambák), дзъмба́к (dzǎmbák), тъмба́к (tǎmbák), зомба́к (zombák)
* → Greek: ζαμπάκι (zampáki), τσαμπάκι (tsampáki)
* → Macedonian: замбак (zambak)
* → Romanian: zambác
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: замбак
    Latin script: zambak

### References

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زنبق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 647b
* Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “زنبق”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 482b

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَنْبَق (zanbaq), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cmbk' /⁠čambak⁠/) (whence Old Armenian ճանբակ (čanbak)), related to Urdu چمپا / Hindi चंपा (campā), Punjabi چمپا (čampā, “jasmine in the broad sense”), which has been borrowed into Persian as چمپا (čampâ, “jasmine”). All via Sanskrit चम्पक (campaka) from Javanese cĕmpaka or another Malayo-Polynesian language, as reflected in Sundanese campaka, Balinese campaka, Minangkabau campagǒ, Madurese compaka, Makasar campaga, Buginese cepaga, Tombulu sampaka.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [zam.ˈbaq]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zäm.bǽq]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zäm.bǽq]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [zäm.bǽq]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [zäm.bǽq]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [zæm.bǽɢ̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [zäm.bǽq]

### Noun

زنبق • (zanbaq) (plural زنبق‌ها (zanbaq-hâ))
* the flower iris

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: zambaq, zanbaq
* → Georgian: ზამბახი (zambaxi)
* → Middle Armenian: զամբաղ (zambaġ), զամպաղ (zampaġ), զամպախ (zampax)
* → Ottoman Turkish: زنبق (zambak), زانبق (zambak), زنباق (zambak)
** Turkish: zambak
** → Albanian: zambak
** → Aromanian: zãmbácã
** → Bulgarian: замба́к (zambák), самба́к (sambák), дзъмба́к (dzǎmbák), тъмба́к (tǎmbák), зомба́к (zombák)
** → Greek: ζαμπάκι (zampáki), τσαμπάκι (tsampáki)
** → Macedonian: замбак (zambak)
** → Romanian: zambác
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: замбак
    Latin script: zambak

### See also

* سوسن (sôsan, sowsan)

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “ճանբակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 183b
* Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 187
* Lagarde, Paul de (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 1371, page 96