zamburaknoun
Factsheet
What does the noun zamburak mean?
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun zamburak. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
Entry status
OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised.
How common is the noun zamburak?
| 1820 | 0.0036 |
| 1830 | 0.0035 |
| 1840 | 0.0032 |
| 1850 | 0.0029 |
| 1860 | 0.002 |
| 1870 | 0.0021 |
| 1880 | 0.0019 |
| 1890 | 0.0009 |
| 1900 | 0.0005 |
| 1910 | 0.0002 |
| 1920 | 0.0001 |
| 1930 | 0.0001 |
| 1940 | 0.0001 |
| 1950 | 0.0001 |
| 1960 | 0.0001 |
| 1970 | 0.0001 |
| 1980 | 0.0001 |
| 1990 | 0.0001 |
| 2000 | 0.0002 |
| 2010 | 0.0002 |
How is the noun zamburak pronounced?
British English
Where does the noun zamburak come from?
Earliest known use
1820s
The earliest known use of the noun zamburak is in the 1820s.
OED's earliest evidence for zamburak is from 1825, in the writing of James B. Fraser, traveller and artist.
zamburak is a borrowing from Urdu.
Etymons: Urdu zambūrak.
Nearby entries
- zamarra, n.1841–
- zama zama, n.2006–
- Zamazim, n.a1400–
- Zambian, adj. & n.1959–
- Zambianization, n.1964–
- Zambianize, v.1964–
- zambo, n.1819–
- Zamboni, n.1965–
- zambra, n.1672–
- zambuk, n.1906–
- zamburak, n.1825–
- zami, n.1977–
- Zamia, n.1819–
- zamindar, n.1683–
- zamindari, n. & adj.1742–
- zamindarship, n.1698–1902
- zamioid, adj.1860–
- zamorin, n.1582–
- zampino, n.1881–
- zampogna, n.1740–
- zampone, n.1860–
Etymology
Summary
Notes
Meaning & use
- 1825–A small swivel-gun, esp. one mounted on the back of a camel.
- 1825
One or two shots from Zumboorucks dropping among them.
J. B. Fraser, Journ. Khorasan 198 - 1863
East Indian jezails and zumbaraks.
R. F. Burton, Abeokuta vol. I. 75 - 1904
Rakish swivel-guns, bell-mouthed zumbooraks.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine July 87/1
society armed hostility military equipment weapon device for discharging missiles firearm piece of artillery [nouns] swivel-gun- swivel-gun1712–A gun or cannon, usually a small one, mounted on a swivel (swivel, n. 1b) so as to turn horizontally in any required direction.
- swivel1748–Short for swivel-gun, n.
- wall-piece1755–Military. (See quot. 1876.)
- jingal1761–A heavy firearm or field gun with a long barrel, suitable for firing with the barrel resting on a person's shoulder or mounted on a swivel, either…
- zamburak1825–A small swivel-gun, esp. one mounted on the back of a camel.
- pivot gun1831–A gun which turns freely on a pivot to point in any direction.
Pronunciation
British English
Consonants
- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- ɬrhingyll
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing
Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence
Vowels
- iːfleece
- ihappy
- ɪkit
- ɛdress
- atrap, bath
- ɑːstart, palm, bath
- ɒlot
- ɔːthought, force
- ʌstrut
- ʊfoot
- uːgoose
- əletter
- əːnurse
- ɪənear
- ɛːsquare
- ʊəcure
- eɪface
- ʌɪpride
- aʊmouth
- əʊgoat
- ɔɪvoice
- ãgratin
- ɒ̃salon
- ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
- ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)
Other symbols
- The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
- The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
- Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.
View the pronunciation model here.
Notes
Forms
Variant forms
Also zumbooruck, zumbooruk, zumboorak, zumbarak, zomboru(c)k, zamboorak, zamborouk, zambúrak.Frequency
zamburak typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
zamburak is in frequency band 1, which contains words occurring fewer than 0.001 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency of zamburak, n., 1820–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
| Decade | Frequency per million words |
|---|---|
| 1820 | 0.0036 |
| 1830 | 0.0035 |
| 1840 | 0.0032 |
| 1850 | 0.0029 |
| 1860 | 0.002 |
| 1870 | 0.0021 |
| 1880 | 0.0019 |
| 1890 | 0.0009 |
| 1900 | 0.0005 |
| 1910 | 0.0002 |
| 1920 | 0.0001 |
| 1930 | 0.0001 |
| 1940 | 0.0001 |
| 1950 | 0.0001 |
| 1960 | 0.0001 |
| 1970 | 0.0001 |
| 1980 | 0.0001 |
| 1990 | 0.0001 |
| 2000 | 0.0002 |
| 2010 | 0.0002 |