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A metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil.
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a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: urn
From Russian самова́р (samovár, “self-boiler”); from само́ (samó, “self”) + вари́ть (varítʹ, “boil, cook”).
Across languages
Translations
81 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Arabic:
سَامَوَار
(samawār)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Arabic:
سَمَوَار
(samawār)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Armenian:
սամովար
(samovar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Armenian:
ինքնաեռ
(inkʻnaeṙ)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Azerbaijani:
سماوار
(simāvār)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Azerbaijani:
ساماوار
(sāmāvār)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Azerbaijani:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Bashkir:
самауыр
(samawır)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Belarusian:
самава́р
(samavár)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Bulgarian:
самова́р
(samovár)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Buryat:
самбаар
(sambaar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Chagatai:
سموار
(samawār)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Chagatai:
سماوار
(samāwār)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Chechen:
самар
(samar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Chinese Mandarin:
薩摩瓦爾 /萨摩瓦尔
(sàmówǎ'ěr)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Chinese Mandarin:
俄式茶壺 /俄式茶壶
(éshì cháhú)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Chinese Mandarin:
茶炊
(cháchuī)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Chuvash:
сӑмавар
(sămavar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Crimean Tatar:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Czech:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Danish:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Dolgan:
һамубар
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Dutch:
samowar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Esperanto:
samovaro
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Estonian:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Finnish:
samovaari
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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French:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Georgian:
სამოვარი
(samovari)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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German:
Samowar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Greek:
σαμοβάρι
(samovári)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Hebrew:
סָמוֹבָר
(samovár)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Hindi:
हंडी
(haṇḍī)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Hindi:
समोवार
(samovār)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Hungarian:
szamovár
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Indonesian:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Italian:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Japanese:
サモワール
(samowāru)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Kashmiri:
سَماوار
(samāvār)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Kazakh:
самауыр
(samauyr)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Kazakh:
самауырын
(samauyryn)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Khakas:
санабар
(sanabar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Korean:
사모바르
(samobareu)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Kumyk:
сумавар
(sumawar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Central Kurdish:
سەماوەر
(semawer)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Northern Kurdish:
semaver
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Kyrgyz:
самоор
(samoor)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Latin:
authepsa
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Latvian:
samovārs
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Lithuanian:
samovaras
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Macedonian:
са́мовар
(sámovar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Norwegian Bokmål:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Pannonian Rusyn:
самовар
(samovar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Iranian Persian:
سَماوَر
(samâvar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Polish:
samowar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Portuguese:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Romanian:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Russian:
самова́р
(samovár)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Serbo-Croatian:
са̏мова̄р
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Serbo-Croatian:
sȁmovār
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Slovak:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Slovene:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Spanish:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Swedish:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Tajik:
самовар
(samovar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Tajik:
самовор
(samovor)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Tatar:
самавыр
(samawır)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Thai:
ซาโมวาร์
(saa-moo-waa)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Turkish:
semaver
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Turkish:
semâver
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Ottoman Turkish:
سماور
(semâver)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Turkmen:
semawar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Ukrainian:
самова́р
(samovár)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Urdu:
سَماوار
(samāvār)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Uyghur:
ساماۋار
(samawar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Uzbek:
samovar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Vietnamese:
ấm xa-mô-va
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Vietnamese:
ấm lò
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Welsh:
samofar
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Yakut:
сылабаар
(sïlabaar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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Yiddish:
סאַמאָוואַר
(samovar)
— metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea