# زنبور
## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* زِنْبَار (zinbār)

### Etymology

From Aramaic זבּור (zibbūr, “hornet”), doublet of دَبُّور (dabbūr); cognates with Classical Syriac ܕܒܘܪܐ (debbōrā) and Hebrew דְּבוֹרָה (dvorá).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zun.buːr/
* (colloquial) IPA: /zan.buːr/

### Noun

زُنْبُور • (zunbūr) m (plural زَنَابِير (zanābīr))
* hornet
* bee
* penis
* clitoris

#### Derived terms

* اَلْمَسْأَلَةُ الزُّنْبُورِيَّةُ (al-masʔalatu z-zunbūriyyatu)

#### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: زنبور (zenbur), զէնպուր (zenbur)
** Turkish: zenbur
* → Persian: زنبور (zanbur)
** → Middle Armenian: զամբուռ (zambuṙ)

### References

* Freytag, Georg (1833) “زنبور”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 257
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “زنبور”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 1015
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “زنبور”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 605

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* զէնպուր (zenbur)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زُنْبُور (zunbūr, “hornet, bee”), from Aramaic זבּור (zibbūr, “hornet”).

### Noun

زنبور • (zenbur) (definite accusative زنبوری (zenburu), plural زنابیر (zenâbir))
* bee, hornet, wasp, any winged insect of the order Hymenoptera except ants
    Synonyms: آری (arı), اشك آریسی (eşek arısı), یابان آریسی (yaban arısı)

#### Derived terms

* زنبور عسل (zenbur-ı ʼasel, “honeybee”)
* زنبورخانه (zenburhâne, “wasp's nest”)
* زنبورك (zenburek, “little wasp”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: zenbur

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zenbur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5453
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زنبور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 647
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Apis”, 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 70
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زنبور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2470
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زنبور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1015

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَنْبُور (zanbūr). An alternative pronunciation of Modern Standard Arabic زُنْبُور (zunbūr).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [zan.buːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zäm.buːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zäm.buːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [zäm.buːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [zäm.buɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [zæm.buːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [zäm.bɵɾ]

### Noun

زنبور • (zanbur) (plural زنبورها (zanbur-hâ))
* bee, hornet, wasp
    کندوی زنبور ― kandu-ye zanbur ― beehive
    زنبور دنبال گل است. ― zanbur donbâl-e gol ast. ― The bee is looking for flowers.
    به روستا رفت و زنبور پرورش ‌داد.be rustâ raft va zanbur parvareš -dâd.He went to the countryside and raised bees.
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 3291:زانک کرمنا شد آدم ز اختیار، یم زنبور عسل شد نیم مارz-ân ke karramnâ šod âdam z-extiyâr, nim zanbur-e 'asal šod, nim mâr.Because We have honoured Man by [the gift of] free-will: half [of him] is honeybee, half is snake.
** c. 1650, Muḥammad Ṭāhir Ğanī Kašmīrī, translated by Mufti Mudasir Farooqi and Nusrat Bazaz, دیوان [Divān]:زین پیشتر حلاوت شهد اینقدر نبود، زنبور دانم آن لب شیرین مزیده استz-in pištar halâvat-e šahd in-qadr na-bud, zanbur dânam ân lab-e širin gazide ast.Never before has honey tasted so sweet [as the sweetness of seeing my love]. The bee, I know, has stung that sweet lip.

#### Derived terms

* زنبور عسل (zanbur-e 'asal, “honeybee”)
* زنبوردار (zanbur-dâr, “beekeeper”)
* زنبورداری (zanbur-dâri, “apiculture”)
* زنبورک (zanburak)

#### Descendants

* → Middle Armenian: զամբուռ (zambuṙ)