Hambar

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A hambar still in heavy use in Hatzfeld/Jimbolia, Romanian Banat, albeit with the traditional wooden slats replaced with chicken wire
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A hambar still in heavy use in Hatzfeld/Jimbolia, Romanian Banat, albeit with the traditional wooden slats replaced with chicken wire

A hambar (Danube Swabian German: hambar, Romanian: hambar or pătul, Serbian: ambar/амбар or čardak/чардак, Bulgarian: хамбар (hambar)) is a corn crib or small building commonly used for storing and drying maize in the Balkans and the neighbouring regions in the Pannonian plain. The word comes from Turkish ambar, meaning "storehouse, warehouse, repository"[1]. The word and the concept are used in Europe as far north as Hungary. The word in its original form ambar is also used in Serbian, together with the alternative word čardak (chardak in English), which is also of Turkish origin, and sometimes was also used to designate a house.

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Seslisozluk.com. 'ambar' dictionary entry. Visited 17 April 2006

[edit] See also

  • Hórreo, the equivalent construction in Northern Spain.
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