English

the city of Samara at the confluence of the Volga and river Samara

Proper noun

Samara

1. A city in Russia, the sixth-largest in the country by population.
2. Samara river that flows in the Volga at the above eponymous city
3. A female given name

Synonyms

• (city): Kuybyshev (name from 1935 to 1991)

Translations

Anagrams

• Asmara

Polish

Proper noun

Samara f

1. Samara, city
2. Samara, river

Declension

Derived terms

• (#1) adjective: samarski

Portuguese

Proper noun

Samara f

1. Samara (an oblast of Russia)
2. Samara (a city, the regional capital of Samara, Russia)
3. A female given name, equivalent to English Samara

English

A samara from a maple tree.

Noun

samara ‎(plural samaras or samarae)

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

Synonyms

• (winged fruit): helicopter, polynose, whirligig, whirlybird

Translations

Anagrams

• Asmara

Italian

Etymology

From Latin samara, from Gaulish.

Noun

samara f ‎(plural samare)

1. (of botany) samara

   winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae

Latin

Etymology

From Gaulish.

Noun

samara f ‎(genitive samarae); first declension

1. (of botany) samara

Inflection

First declension.

References

• samara in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “samara”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• samara in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• samara in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly