▪ Var. of ↗
ʔanbār ‘hangar, grange, magasin, entrepôt, dépôt; pont (de vaisseau)’, from mPers
hanbārak ‘id.’, akin to Skr
sambhāra ‘collecte, accumulation de nourriture’ < IE *
sem- ‘un, même, ensemble’ + *
bʰer- ‘porter’ – Rolland2014a.
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▪ Cf., however, also ↗
ʕanbar_1 in the meaning of ‘sperm whale, cachalot’, hence also
†‘skin of the cachalot, used as a shield; shield [see ʕNBR_4 in root entry ↗ʕNBR]’ from where it is not a big step to > *protection, and
hence ‘hangar (protecting food, etc.), storehouse’.