different between tamarind vs sambar

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English thamarynde, from Old French tamarinde, from Medieval Latin tamarindus, from Arabic ????? ????????? (tamr hindiyy, literally “Indian date”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæm???nd/

Noun

tamarind (countable and uncountable, plural tamarinds)

1. (botany) A tropical tree, Tamarindus indica.
2. (cooking) The fruit of this tree; the pulp is used as spice in Asian cooking and in Worcestershire sauce.
3. Other similar species:
   1. Diploglottis australis, native tamarind, a rainforest tree of Eastern Australia.
   2. Garcinia gummi-gutta, Malabar tamarind, native to Indonesia.
   3. A velvet tamarind (Dialium spp.).
4. (color) A dark brown colour, like that of tamarind pulp (also called tamarind brown).

Translations

Further reading

• tamarind on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tamarindus indica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Tamarindus indica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi ????? (s?mbhar), ????? (s?mbhar), from Sanskrit ????? (?ambara, “a kind of deer”).

Alternative forms

• sambhar
• sambhur
• sambur

Noun

sambar (plural sambars)

1. (zoology) A Southeast Asian deer, Cervus unicolor.

Synonyms

• (Cervus unicolor): Rusa unicolor

Etymology 2

From Tamil ???????? (c?mp?r), from Marathi ?????? (s?mbh?r)/?????? (s?mb?r, “curry”), from Old Marathi ?????? (s??b?ra), from Sanskrit ?????? (sambh?rá, “materials required for a particular purpose, provision; collection of spices”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *samb??rás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *samb??rás, from Proto-Indo-European *sem-b?or-ó-s, from *sem- (“together, one”) +? *b?er- (“to bear, carry”) +? *-ós (deverbal suffix). Doublet of Anbar.

Noun

sambar (uncountable)

1. (cooking) 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.

Further reading

• Sambar deer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sambar (dish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cervus unicolor on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Abrams, Bamars, abrams, ambars

Portuguese

Etymology

samba +? -ar

Verb

sambar (first-person singular present indicative sambo, past participle sambado)

1. (intransitive) to samba

Conjugation

Further reading

• “sambar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.