Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1830s
Samovar
from самовар (samovar)
- Meaning
- Self-boiler — a heated metal urn for tea.
- Source word
- самовар (samovar)
- Route into English
- Tula (Russia) tea-urn manufacturing → English via 19th-c. Russian travel writing.
- Arrived
- 1830s
English borrows.
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