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sam·bar

 (săm′bər, säm′-)
n.
Any of various large deer of the genus Cervus, especially C. unicolor of southern Asia, having a dark brown coat and, in the male, large antlers usually with three points.

[Hindi sāmbar, from Sanskrit śambaraḥ.]
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sambar

(ˈsæmbə) ,

sambhur

or

sambur

n, pl -bars, -bar, -burs or -bur
(Animals) a S Asian deer, Cervus unicolor, with three-tined antlers
[C17: from Hindi, from Sanskrit śambarra, of obscure origin]

sambar

(ˈsæmbə) or

sambhar

n
(Cookery) a southern Indian dish consisting of lentils and vegetables cooked with tamarind and other spices
[from Tamil]
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sam•bar

or sam•bur

(ˈsæm bər, ˈsɑm-)

n.
an Asian deer, Cervusunicolor, with three-pointed antlers.
[1690–1700; < Hindi < Skt śambara]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.sambar - a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tinessambar - a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines
cervid, deer - distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
Cervus, genus Cervus - the type genus of the Cervidae
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References in classic literature ?
Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world!
"The men-folk, too, they die beside their ploughs," said a young sambhur. "I passed three between sunset and night.
All the mess plate was out on the long table - the same table that had served up the bodies of five officers after a forgotten fight long and long ago - the dingy, battered standards faced the door of entrance, clumps of winter-roses lay between the silver candlesticks, and the portraits of eminent officers deceased looked down on their successors from between the heads of sambhur, nilghai, markhor, and, pride of all the mess, two grinning snow-leopards that had cost Basset-Holmer four months' leave that he might have spent in England, instead of on the road to Thibet and the daily risk of his life by ledge, snow- slide, and grassy slope.