Samovar

Definition: Samovar

Samovar

Noun

1. A metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea.

Date "samovar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references)

Note: Samovar \Sa"mo*var\, noun. [Russ. samovar'.]. (Websters 1913)

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Samovar

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SAMOVAR	English	Recording vehicle and driver behaviour in relation to road safety	Transportation
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: Samovar

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A samovar (the literal translation is "self-boiler") is a heated metal urn traditionally used to brew tea in and around Russia and other Slavic nations. It is said it was invented in the Central Asia.

A traditional samovar consists of a large metal container with a faucet and a metal pipe running up through the center. The pipe is filled with solid fuel to heat the water in the surrounding container and the teapot placed on top. The teapot is used to brew the zavarka, a strong concentrate of tea. The tea is served by diluting this concentrate with kipyatok (boiling water) from the main container at a ratio of about 10 parts water to one part tea concentrate.

It is particularly well-suited to tea-drinking in a communal setting over a protracted period. The Russian expression "to have a sit by samovar" means to have a leisury talk while drinking tea from samovar. This compares with the Japanese tea ceremony, but only superficially.

In the everyday use it was an economic permanent source of hot water in older times. Various slow-burning stuff was used for fuel: charcoal, dry pine tree cones. When not in use, the fire in the the samovar pipe was faintly smouldering. When necessary, it was quickly rekindled in a peculiar way, with the help of a sapog (Russian high boot). For better flexibility, the sapog has folds at the ankle level. A common habit of vanity was to make more of these folds than necessary, so that the sapog would resemble the windbag of an accordion. The sapog was put upside down on top of the samovar pipe and was worked just like bellows to pump the air through the pipe for better burning. Of course, there were special samovar bellows as well.

Samovar was an important attribute of a Russian household. Sizes and designs varied, from "40-pail" ones (100 gallons) to quart-size, from cylindrical to spherical, from plain iron to polished brass to gilded.

In modern times, samovar is mostly an attribute of Russian exotics and nostalgia. Today electric samovars are available. In the West, they can be ordered from Europe or may be found in neighborhoods with heavily Slavic populations, such as New York's East Village or Coney Island in Brooklyn.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Samovar."

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Crosswords: Samovar

Non-English Usage: "Samovar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (samovar, tea urn), Czech (samovar, tea urn, urn), Dutch (samovar), French (samovar), Italian (samovar), Portuguese (samovar), Romanian (samovar), Serbo-Croatian (samovar, teakettle), Spanish (samovar), Swedish (samovar).

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Commercial Usage: Samovar

Domain	Title
Books	Intercultural Communication: A Reader [Compiled By] Larry A. Samovar, Richard E. Porter (reference) Mate y Samovar (reference) Nothing missing but the samovar, and other stories (reference) Samovar (reference) Samovar de Plata, El (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Samovar

"Samovar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Samovar" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	8	124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Samovar

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
samovar	103
russian samovar	18
samovar tea	8
samovar serving	4
anchorage samovar	3
samovar tula	2
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Modern Translations: Samovar

Language		Translations for "samovar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		samovar (tea urn). (various references)

Arabic		‏السماور إناء لاإعداد الشاي. (various references)

Bulgarian		самовар (urn). (various references)

Czech		samovar (tea urn, urn). (various references)

Dutch		samovar. (various references)

Esperanto		samovaro. (various references)

French		samovar. (various references)

German		Samowar. (various references)

Greek		σαμοβάρι (tea urn). (various references)

Hebrew		מיחם (kettle, urn). (various references)

Hungarian		szamovár (tea urn). (various references)

Italian		samovar. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		サ� ライ債 (salad, salad bar, salad bowl, salad dressing, salad oil, samurai loan, surround). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		サモワール . (various references)

Pig Latin		amovarsay.(various references)

Portuguese		samovar. (various references)

Romanian		samovar. (various references)

Russian		самовар. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		samovar (teakettle). (various references)

Spanish		samovar. (various references)

Swedish		samovar. (various references)

Thai		กาน้ำชาโลหะ (ใช้ในรัสเซีย). (various references)

Turkish		semaver (tea urn, urn). (various references)

Turkmen		semawar (r) (water boiler). (various references)

Ukranian		самовар. (various references)

Vietnamese		ấm xamôva. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Samovar

Derivations
	Words beginning with "samovar": samovars. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Samovar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Damodar, samobar, samofar, Samorat, Samsova, Samugarh, samvoar, Sansodar, saova, Sarova, serovar, Sharovari, stamocap. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Samovar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-m-o-r-s-v"
	-1 letter: aromas.
	-2 letters: aroma, arvos, maars, moras, omasa, roams, savor, varas.
	-3 letters: amas, arms, arvo, avos, maar, mars, moas, mora, mors, oars, osar, rams, roam, roms, soar, soma, sora, vara, vars, vasa.
	-4 letters: aas, ama, arm, ars, ava, avo, mar, mas, moa, mor, mos, oar, oms, ora, ors, ova, ram, ras, rom, som, var, vas.
	-5 letters: aa, am, ar, as, ma, mo, om, or, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-m-o-r-s-v"
	+1 letter: samovars.
	+4 letters: overmanages.
	+5 letters: comparatives, malversation.
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