Zimber

Zimber used as a surname and believed to be Germanic but the meaning is undefined. Used as a surname in Eastern Europe since the 17th Century.

Zimber may be a variant of the German word Kimber or members of a historic second century Germanic ethnic group.[1] Now called the Cimbri.[2] Kimber (name) is also a forename and surname.

Zimber and Zimmer is a German exonym for Cembra and related to the Cimbri ancestry.

Zimber may also be a corruption of Zimble(r) or Tsimbl.[3] This was an ancient medieval stringed instrument played by plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum. This instrument is similar to a Psaltery, Dulcimer or Cymbalom.[4] Note: The German word Zimbel is cymbal (music), while Zimbal is Cymbalom.[3]

Zimber could also be a variant of the German word Zimmer[mann], chamber/carpenter (cf. timber).

People with this or similar surname
  • Diana Zimber, a member of the Tommy Gorman family
  • Gisela Zimber, German writer
  • Liane Zimbler, née Juliana Fischer - an early female architect

Places

See also
  • All pages with titles beginning with Zimber
  • All pages with titles containing Zimber

References
  1. "On-line Dictionary". Seadict.com. 2012. Retrieved July 25, 2013. Auf Deutsch: Kimber, der; -s, -n: Angehöriger eines germanischen Volksstammes.
  2. "Cimbri (people)". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  3. Olaf Thyen; Michael Clark; Werner Scholze-Stubenrecht; John Bradbury Sykes (1999). The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary: German-English, English-German. Oxford University Press. p. 849. ISBN 9780198602484. Retrieved July 25, 2013. Tsimbl. Page 849
  4. Concise Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2001.
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