shambar

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shambar (uncountable)

1. A soup originating in Peru, made of wheat grains, fava beans, green peas, chickpeas and dry beans.
   • 1975, Robert Jerome Smith, The Art of the Festival, as Exemplified by the Fiesta to the Patroness of Otuzco, La Virgen de la Puerta, page 110:

     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.

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shambar (plural shambars)

1. A ceremonial veil worn in Palestine.
   • 1979, Yedida Kalfon Stillman, Palestinian Costume and Jewelry, page 66:

     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.

   • 1994, Shelagh Weir, Palestinian Costume, page 166:

     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.

   • 2013, Jill Condra, Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing Around the World:

     Women of the region wore a shambar or veil made of black crepe material either dyed red or, more frequently, heavily embroidered in red.

• Barhams, Brahams, Brahmas, sambhar

shambar m (plural shambares)

1. shambar