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Cimberla and Ciambarle are practically unique and are probably due to errors of transcription of Cimberle, extremely rare, which would seem to have a stock in the Asiago plateau and one, probably secondary, in Turin, additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli D. Olivieri in his I surnames of the Euganean Venice, p.201 'derives the similar surname Cimerle from the word zimberle = carpenter, usual in the area of the seven municipalities. additions provided by Stefano Ferrazzi These surnames, in reality, lend themselves to different hypotheses regarding their meaning. On the one hand, the proposal of D. Olivieri seems, in fact, to be justified: the term zimberle / cimberle could come from a dialectal entry derived from the ancient German zimber, that is wood, and therefore indicate the trade of carpenter, carpenter ( the equivalent of the German surname Zimmerman and its variants). On the other hand, however, we cannot exclude the hypothesis, proposed by other scholars, of a Latin origin of the term cimberle: according to J. Grzega (Materialien zu einem etymologischen Wörterbuch des Dolomitenladinischen), this word derives, in fact, from Latin cymbalum, with the meaning of cembalo. In ancient times, the cymbals (also called cimbali or cimberli) were musical instruments formed by two concave plates struck against each other to produce music; later the term went to indicate, in general, a rattle tambourine. Now, since the word cimbali derives from a neutral Latin noun, that is cymbalum, this term could have entered the Italian language both in masculine and feminine form (at least at first or in some areas of the country) and hence the variants cimberli and Cimberle. If this were so, then two interpretations can be derived from the etymology of these surnames: the first is that they were born from a nickname attributed to a cymbal player or, perhaps, to a manufacturer of these instruments; the second, proposed by Grzega, is that they derive instead from a playful nickname attributed to a person who is often drunk, an interpretation that follows the expression 'being in cimberli', that is 'being drunk', since being in company with the sound of cymbals evokes the idea of joy, euphoria and, by extension, drunkenness. In conclusion, the surnames Cimbarle, Cimberla and Cimberle could have been born either from trade names, such as that of the carpenter, the cymbal player or the manufacturer of such instruments, or from a nickname meaning drunk, drunk (though, personally, I think it can also refer to the meaning of allegro or partiiolo).
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