Shambar
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Shambar is a noun meaning A soup originating in Peru, made of wheat grains, fava beans, green peas, chickpeas and dry beans.
Meaning
A soup originating in Peru, made of wheat grains, fava beans, green peas, chickpeas and dry beans.
More Meanings
- A ceremonial veil worn in Palestine.
Example Sentences
Women of the region wore a shambar or veil made of black crepe material either dyed red or, more frequently, heavily embroidered in red.
For the noon meal they serve the traditional shambar, a corn soup with pieces of potatoes, beans, and pigskin, spiced with a large number of condiments.
Bethlehem women preferred to wear a simpler shambar, without a naqleh, and ornamented only with a dikkeh which had the added refinement that the ends of its fringe were delicately knotted.
In Bethlehem, until the end of the nineteenth century, the embroidered shambar was worn on festive occasions, replacing the everyday terbia. […] The shambars of most other areas were not embroidered.
Word Forms
- shambars
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shiro, chana, pea soup, sambar, rubaboo, tsamba.
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