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单词 sambuk
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sambukn.

/ˈsambuːk/
Forms: Also 1500s sambuco, zanbuco, 1800s sambucco, sambook, zambuck, zanbuc, 1900s zanbuq.
Etymology: Origin uncertain: in Arabic written sanbūq. Compare Portuguese zambuco, Italian sambuco.
‘A kind of small vessel formerly used in Western India, and still on the Arabian coast’ (Yule). Also attributive.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > types of regional vessel > in Arabia and western India
almadia1568
sambuk1582
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1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. x. 26 b They discouered two Sambucos (which are little Pinnacies).
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. lxiii. 129 b Hee went to Mousanbique in a Zanbuco.
1855 R. F. Burton Personal Narr. Pilgrimage to El-Medinah I. 263 The Sambuk [is a vessel] from 15 to 50 [tons burden].
1872 S. O. Beeton & R. Smith Livingstone & Stanley 15 Small vessels, called zambucks.
1887 L. Oliphant Episodes (1888) 15 A sambook or craft such as are now used in those seas [about India].
1891 National Rev. Feb. 729 Small barques, which they called zanbucs.
1906 H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail ix. 307 The Red Sea sambuk is generally from 18 to 20 tons only.
1938 F. Stark Diary 1 Mar. in Winter in Arabia (1940) 201 A king..sent for one thousand virgins from Somaliland across the sea; they were all shipped in a sambuq.
1942 Mariner's Mirror 28 21 The Mashwa or Machwa. The larger Arab fishing boats, the mashwas, are built after the design of the sambuk and the jehazi in their respective home ports. At Zanzibar they are employed also for the transport of coral rag and firewood.
1963 Times 1 Feb. 14/6 They want a sambuq to meet them at Bir Sukaiya at noon next Wednesday—it's three hours' sail by sambuq from there to Perim.
1974 National Geographic Sept. 333 (caption) Sambuk, once the most common of Arab dhows, has ferried generations of Moslem pilgrims from Africa towards Mecca.
1975 Financial Times 31 Oct. 5/4 The monsoon was pushing the seas too high, even for the sturdy sambuq fishing boats.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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