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سبر

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Arabic

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Etymology 1.1

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Root
س ب ر (s b r)
2 terms

From Aramaic סְבַר (sḇar) in a very narrow meaning, apparently only back-formed from سِبَار (sibār), مِسْبَار (misbār), مِسْبَر (misbar, probe).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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سَبَرَ (sabara) I (non-past يَسْبُرُ (yasburu) or يَسْبِرُ (yasbiru), verbal noun سَبْر (sabr)) (transitive)

  1. to probe into (a hole, like a well) so as to measure its depth; to gauge; to sound
    Synonym: قَاسَ (qāsa)
    1. (figurative) to probe into (someone) as if measuring him; to gauge; to sound; to judge; to weigh up
Conjugation
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Etymology 1.2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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سَبْر (sabrm

  1. verbal noun of سَبَر (sabar) (form I), probing, prodding
Declension
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Etymology 1.3

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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سَبْر or سِبْر (sabr or sibrm (plural أَسْبَار (ʔasbār)) (countable)

  1. measure, habit, form, appearance, garb, features, likeness, mien
    Synonyms: هَيْئَة (hayʔa), صُورَة (ṣūra)
  2. (obsolete) source, origin, root
    Synonym: أَصْل (ʔaṣl)
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Further reading

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  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 612–613
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 261
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سبر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 277b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سبر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1043a
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سبر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1293
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سبر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 478a
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “سبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 458a

Burushaski

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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سبر (sabur)

  1. yesterday
    Synonym: ساٹݵ (saaṭi)

References

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  • Bechtholdt, Astrid (2024) “sabur”, in Burushaski Hunza Dictionary (Webonary), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2017.