Standard Lemma guide

samara

name · noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈsæmərə/
  • General-American: /səˈmɛrə/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsæmərə/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /səˈmɛərə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: S AE1 M ER0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

An oblast of Russia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A city, the administrative center of Samara Oblast, Russia, the sixth-largest in the country by population.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Kuybyshev

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A tributary of the Volga in Russia, which meets the Volga at the city of the same name.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

A female given name.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

name

Meaning 5

A tributary of the Dnieper in Ukraine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

name

Meaning 6

A village in Mykolaivka settlement hromada, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: helicopter, polynose, whirligig, whirlybird

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: key fruit, key

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: achene

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Сама́ра (Samára).

Borrowed from Ukrainian Сама́ра (Samára).

From Latin samara (“elm seed”), from a Gaulish term derived from Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”).

Across languages

Translations

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: سَمَارَا (samārā) — city in Russia
  • Arabic: سَامَارَا (samārā) — city in Russia
  • Armenian: Սամարա (Samara) — city in Russia
  • Bashkir: Һамар (Hamar) — city in Russia
  • Belarusian: Сама́ра (Samára) — city in Russia
  • Bulgarian: Сама́ра (Samára) — city in Russia
  • Chinese Mandarin: 薩馬拉 /萨马拉 (Sàmǎlā) — city in Russia
  • Chuvash: Самар — city in Russia
  • Danish: Samara — city in Russia
  • Erzya: Самар — city in Russia
  • Finnish: Samara — city in Russia
  • French: Samara — city in Russia
  • Georgian: სამარა (samara) — city in Russia
  • German: Samara — city in Russia
  • Greek: Σαμάρα (Samára) — city in Russia
  • Hebrew: סמרה — city in Russia
  • Hindi: समारा (samārā) — city in Russia
  • Japanese: サマーラ (Samāra) — city in Russia
  • Kalmyk: Самр (Samr) — city in Russia
  • Kazakh: Самыр (Samyr) — city in Russia
  • Korean: 사마라 (Samara) — city in Russia
  • Latvian: Samara — city in Russia
  • Macedonian: Сама́ра (Samára) — city in Russia
  • Marathi: समारा (samārā) — city in Russia
  • Mongolian: Самар — city in Russia
  • Persian: سمارا (samârâ) — city in Russia
  • Polish: Samara — city in Russia
  • Portuguese: Samara — city in Russia
  • Russian: Сама́ра (Samára) — city in Russia
  • Serbo-Croatian: Самара — city in Russia
  • Serbo-Croatian: Samara — city in Russia
  • Siberian Tatar: Самар — city in Russia
  • Spanish: Samara — city in Russia
  • Swedish: Samara — city in Russia
  • Tatar: Самар — city in Russia
  • Thai: ซามารา (saa-maa-raa) — city in Russia
  • Ukrainian: Сама́ра (Samára) — city in Russia
  • Urdu: سمارا — city in Russia
  • Vietnamese: Samara — city in Russia
  • Yakut: Самарҕа (Samarğa) — city in Russia
  • Yakut: Сомоҕо (Somoğo) — city in Russia
  • Yakut: Саһарҕа (Saharğa) — city in Russia
  • Ukrainian: Сама́ра (Samára) — village in Mykolaivka, Sumy, Sumy, Ukraine
  • Arabic: جَنَاحِيَّة (janāḥiyya) — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Belarusian: крыла́тка (krylátka) — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Belarusian: кры́лаўка (krýlawka) — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 翅果 (chìguǒ) — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Czech: dvounažka — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Dutch: vleugelnoot — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Esperanto: samaro — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Estonian: tiibvili — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Finnish: pallepähkylä — winged indehiscent fruit
  • French: samare — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Georgian: ფრთიანა (prtiana) — winged indehiscent fruit
  • German: Flügelnuss — winged indehiscent fruit
  • German: Samara — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Hungarian: lependék — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Hungarian: ikerlependék — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Italian: samara — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Japanese: 翼果 — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Korean: 시과 (sigwa) — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Polish: skrzydlak — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Portuguese: sâmara — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Russian: крыла́тка (krylátka) — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Spanish: sámara — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Tagalog: pakpakbunga — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Ukrainian: крила́тка (krylátka) — winged indehiscent fruit
  • Welsh: samara — winged indehiscent fruit
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