# انبار
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* آنبار (anbar, ambar)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian انبار (anbâr, “granary, warehouse”).

### Noun

انبار • (enbar, anbar, ambar)
* storehouse, magazine, a building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions
    Synonym: مخزن (mahzen)
* (agriculture) granary, a storage facility for grain or, sometimes, animal feed
    Synonym: مخزن (mahzen)
* (nautical) hold, a space for carrying cargo in a ship's compartment

#### Derived terms

* انبارجی (anbarcı, “storehouse-keeper”)
* انبارلو (anbarlı, “furnished with a storehouse”)
* طوپ انباری (top anbarı, “lower deck of a warship”)
* قرق انبار (kırk anbar, “dealer in marine stores”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: ambar
* → Bulgarian: хамбар (hambar)
* → Crimean Tatar: ambar
* → Greek: αμπάρι (ampári)
* → Hungarian: hombár
** → Romanian: hambar
* → Serbo-Croatian: ȁmbār / а̏мба̄р, hȁmbār / ха̏мба̄р

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ambar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 230
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “انبار”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 68b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انبار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 150
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Horreum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 706
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انبار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 436
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ambar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انبار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 207

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hmbʾl), 𐫍𐫖𐫁𐫀𐫡 (hmbʾr /⁠hambār⁠/, “store”), from Old Persian *𐏃𐎶𐎲𐎠𐎼 (hambāraʰ), from Proto-Iranian *hambāráh (compare Avestan 𐬵𐬅𐬨𐬠𐬀𐬭 (hą̇mbar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sambʰārás (compare Sanskrit सम्भार (sambhārá, “provisions”)).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔan.bɑːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäm.bɑːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäm.bɑːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔäm.bɑːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔäm.bɔːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔæm.bɒːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔäm.bɔɾ]
* Rhymes: -ɑːr

### Noun

اَنْبار • (anbâr) (plural انبارها (anbâr-hâ))
| Dari | انبار |
| Iranian Persian | انبار |
| Tajik | анбор |
* store, warehouse, granary, depot, reservoir
    Synonym: مَخْزَن (maxzan)

#### Derived terms

* انباری (anbâri)
* انبارخانه (anbârxâne)
* انباردار (anbârdâr)
* انباردن (anbârdan)
* انباریدن (anbâridan)
* انبار کردن (anbâr kardan)
* تلمبار (talambâr)

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: أَنْبَار (ʔanbār), عَنْبَر (ʕanbar)
** → English: Al Anbar, English: Anbar
* → Azerbaijani: anbar, انبار
* → Belarusian: амбар (ambar) (via a Turkic language)
* → English: ambar (rare; in some cases a direct borrowing, in others via another language)
* → Georgian: ამბარი (ambari)
* → Hindustani:
** → Devanagari script: अम्बार (ambār)
** → Arabic script: اَن٘بار (ambār)
* → Kazakh: амбар (ambar)
* → Mongolian: амбаар (ambaar)
* → Ottoman Turkish: انبار (enbar, anbar, ambar), آنبار (anbar, ambar)
** Turkish: ambar
** → Bulgarian: хамбар (hambar)
** → Crimean Tatar: ambar
** → Greek: αμπάρι (ampári)
** → Hungarian: hombár
*** → Romanian: hambar
** → Serbo-Croatian: ȁmbār / а̏мба̄р, hȁmbār / ха̏мба̄р
* → Punjabi:
** → Gurmukhi script: ਅੰਬਾਰ (ambār)
** → Shahmukhi script: اَن٘بار (ambār)
* → Russian: амба́р (ambár) (via a Turkic language)
* → Southern Altai: амбар (ambar), алмар (almar)
* → Tatar: амбар (ambar)
* → Ukrainian: амбар (ambar) (via a Turkic language)

### Verb

انبار • (anbâr-)
* present stem form of انباشتن (anbâštan)
* present stem form of انباریدن (anbâridan)
* present stem form of انباردن (anbârdan)

### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ամբար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 149a
* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “hambār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian انبار (anbār).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /əm.bɑːɾ/

### Noun

اَن٘بار • (ambār) m (Hindi spelling अम्बार)
* heap, pile, stock
* stack, hoard, collection

### References

* “انبار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “انبار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.