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samovar

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈsæməvɑː(ɹ)/
  • /ˌsæməˈvɑː(ɹ)/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

History

Etymology

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.

  • Albanian: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Arabic: سَامَوَار (samawār) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Arabic: سَمَوَار (samawār) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Armenian: սամովար (samovar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Armenian: ինքնաեռ (inkʻnaeṙ) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Azerbaijani: سماوار (simāvār) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Azerbaijani: ساماوار (sāmāvār) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Azerbaijani: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Bashkir: самауыр (samawır) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Belarusian: самава́р (samavár) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Bulgarian: самова́р (samovár) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Buryat: самбаар (sambaar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Chagatai: سموار (samawār) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Chagatai: سماوار (samāwār) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Chechen: самар (samar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Chinese Mandarin: 薩摩瓦爾 /萨摩瓦尔 (sàmówǎ'ěr) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Chinese Mandarin: 俄式茶壺 /俄式茶壶 (éshì cháhú) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Chinese Mandarin: 茶炊 (cháchuī) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Chuvash: сӑмавар (sămavar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Crimean Tatar: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Czech: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Danish: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Dolgan: һамубар — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Dutch: samowar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Esperanto: samovaro — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Estonian: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Finnish: samovaari — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • French: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Georgian: სამოვარი (samovari) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • German: Samowar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Greek: σαμοβάρι (samovári) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Hebrew: סָמוֹבָר (samovár) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Hindi: हंडी (haṇḍī) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Hindi: समोवार (samovār) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Hungarian: szamovár — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Indonesian: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Italian: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Japanese: サモワール (samowāru) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Kashmiri: سَماوار (samāvār) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Kazakh: самауыр (samauyr) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Kazakh: самауырын (samauyryn) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Khakas: санабар (sanabar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Korean: 사모바르 (samobareu) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Kumyk: сумавар (sumawar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Central Kurdish: سەماوەر (semawer) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Northern Kurdish: semaver — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Kyrgyz: самоор (samoor) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Latin: authepsa — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Latvian: samovārs — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Lithuanian: samovaras — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Macedonian: са́мовар (sámovar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Norwegian Bokmål: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Pannonian Rusyn: самовар (samovar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Iranian Persian: سَماوَر (samâvar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Polish: samowar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Portuguese: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Romanian: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Russian: самова́р (samovár) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Serbo-Croatian: са̏мова̄р — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Serbo-Croatian: sȁmovār — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Slovak: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Slovene: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Spanish: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Swedish: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Tajik: самовар (samovar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Tajik: самовор (samovor) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Tatar: самавыр (samawır) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Thai: ซาโมวาร์ (saa-moo-waa) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Turkish: semaver — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Turkish: semâver — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Ottoman Turkish: سماور (semâver) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Turkmen: semawar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Ukrainian: самова́р (samovár) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Urdu: سَماوار (samāvār) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Uyghur: ساماۋار (samawar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Uzbek: samovar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Vietnamese: ấm xa-mô-va — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Vietnamese: ấm lò — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Welsh: samofar — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Yakut: сылабаар (sïlabaar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
  • Yiddish: סאַמאָוואַר (samovar) — metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea
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