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Definition of Sambar
1. Noun. A deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines.
Generic synonyms: Cervid, Deer
Group relationships: Cervus, Genus Cervus
Definition of Sambar
1. Noun. A southeast Asian deer. ¹
2. Noun. A food preparation common in southern India and Sri Lanka, made of lentils (usually red gram, also called ''toor dal'') and vegetables in a spicy tamarind and lentil flour soup base. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sambar
1. a large Asian deer [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sambar
Literary usage of Sambar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"The males heavily mimed. No. 471. RUSA ARISTOTELIS. The sambar ... The sambar
stag is a grand animal, with fine erect carriage, heavily maned neck, ..."
2. The Prema-Sâgara: Or, Ocean of Love by Kavi Lal, Chaturbhuja Miṣra, kavi Lallū Lālu, Frederic Pincott, Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1897)
"The birth of Pradyumna—He is carried off by sambar and cast into the sea—He is
... of sambar—On attaining his majority he slays sambar and carries off Rati. ..."
3. The China Sea Directory by Great Britain Hydrographic Dept, John William Reed, John William King (1867)
"WEST COAST OF BORNEO ; sambar POINT TO HASTEN TIEGA ISLANDS, ... The southern
part of the west coast of Borneo, from sambar point its south-west extreme to ..."
4. Universal Geography: Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"untry of This low, sandy, and burning coast, called sambar, is the scene, of the
wanderings of different nomade tribes, ..."
5. My Indian Journal by Walter Campbell (1864)
"... few remarks on that rare animal, the Indian bison, with the three varieties
of deer found in the western provinces, viz., the sambar or great rusa-deer, ..."
6. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"The males heavily mimed. No. 471. RUSA ARISTOTELIS. The sambar ... The sambar
stag is a grand animal, with fine erect carriage, heavily maned neck, ..."
7. The Prema-Sâgara: Or, Ocean of Love by Kavi Lal, Chaturbhuja Miṣra, kavi Lallū Lālu, Frederic Pincott, Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1897)
"The birth of Pradyumna—He is carried off by sambar and cast into the sea—He is
... of sambar—On attaining his majority he slays sambar and carries off Rati. ..."
8. The China Sea Directory by Great Britain Hydrographic Dept, John William Reed, John William King (1867)
"WEST COAST OF BORNEO ; sambar POINT TO HASTEN TIEGA ISLANDS, ... The southern
part of the west coast of Borneo, from sambar point its south-west extreme to ..."
9. Universal Geography: Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"untry of This low, sandy, and burning coast, called sambar, is the scene, of the
wanderings of different nomade tribes, ..."
10. My Indian Journal by Walter Campbell (1864)
"... few remarks on that rare animal, the Indian bison, with the three varieties
of deer found in the western provinces, viz., the sambar or great rusa-deer, ..."
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