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. Now called the Cimbri. Kimber 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 or Tsimbl. 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.
Note: The German word Zimbel is cymbal, while Zimbal is Cymbalom.
Zimber could also be a variant of the German word Zimmer, chamber/carpenter.
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
- Zimber or Zimmers, a German exonyms name for the Italian Cembra a municipality of Trentino