Sabir
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Sabir sabir (“know”), in Molière's Le bourgeois gentilhomme, probably from Spanish saber, ultimately from Latin sapere.
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editPronunciation
editProper noun
editSabir
- (historical) An Italian-based pidgin language used as the lingua franca of Mediterranean trade from roughly the 11th to the 19th centuries.[1][2]
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editEtymology 2
editPossibly a native Turkic formation; see Sabir. Cognate to Greek Σαβίνος (Savínos), Σάβιροι (Sáviroi).
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editNoun
editSabir (plural Sabirs)
- (historical) A member of a (possibly Turkic) people or tribe who lived around the Caspian before the arrival of the Avars.
Proper noun
editSabir
- The (probably Turkic) language spoken by these people.
- 2007, Peter B. Golden, Haggai Ben-Shammai, András Róna-Tas, The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives, part 8, volume 17, page 14:
- […] could hardly be anything else but Hungarian. Beyond the Hungarian presence in this polyglot state, there were, he suggested, speakers of Bulğar Turkic, Türk and Sabir (which he viewed as Common Turkic) and various other tongues.
Etymology 3
editUltimately from Arabic صَابِر (ṣābir).
Proper noun
editSabir
- A male given name from Arabic.
Etymology 4
editProper noun
editSabir
- A surname.
Etymology 5
editFrom Azerbaijani Sabir or Səbir.
Proper noun
editSabir
- Any of several places in Azerbaijan.
References
edit- ^ “Lingua franca del Mediterraneo or sabir (in Italian), article of Francesco Bruni”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2013 August 20 (last accessed), archived from the original on 28 March 2009
- ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2], 2013 August 20 (last accessed), archived from the original on 25 March 2012
Anagrams
editAzerbaijani
editCyrillic | Сабир | |
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Abjad | صابر |
Etymology
editProper noun
editSabir
- a male given name from Arabic
Declension
editDeclension of Sabir | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | Sabir |
Sabirlər | ||||||
definite accusative | Sabiri |
Sabirləri | ||||||
dative | Sabirə |
Sabirlərə | ||||||
locative | Sabirdə |
Sabirlərdə | ||||||
ablative | Sabirdən |
Sabirlərdən | ||||||
definite genitive | Sabirin |
Sabirlərin |
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