A hambar Aromanian: ambare, Bulgarian: хамбар (hambar) Danube Swabian German: hambar, Hungarian: ombár, Romanian: hambar or pătul, Russian: амбар (ambar), Serbian: ambar/амбар or čardak/чардак, ) is a corn crib or small building commonly used for storing and drying maize in the Balkans and the neighboring regions in the Pannonian plain and north of the Danube. The word comes from Turkish ambar, meaning "storehouse, warehouse, repository", from the Greek nautical term ἀμπάρι (ampari), meaning "stowage". The word and the concept are used in Europe as far north as Hungary and the White Sea in Russia.