سبورة

Arabic

Etymology

From سَبَرَ (sabara) meaning to examine or probe a wound, to clean out a wound, to refresh it or to clean off purulent material, to express uncleanly substances or to attempt to release an illness through bloodletting, to wipe down or wipe off filth, to purify or clear up especially a surface like the skin around a wound; likely an extended semantic development from Aramaic סְבַר (sḇar, “originally to consider, to look over; later to perforate or cut into, to check inside”).

Root
س ب ر (s b r)
2 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sab.buː.ra/

Noun

سَبُّورَة • (sabbūra) f (plural سَبُّورات (sabbūrāt))

1. slate; blackboard; whiteboard; any display board whose content can be disposed of, commonly by erasure e.g. flip-charts, electronic and interactive whiteboards ...etc.

Declension

Declension of noun سَبُّورَة (sabbūra)

singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	سَبُّورَة sabbūra	السَّبُّورَة as-sabbūra	سَبُّورَة sabbūrat
nominative	سَبُّورَةٌ sabbūratun	السَّبُّورَةُ as-sabbūratu	سَبُّورَةُ sabbūratu
accusative	سَبُّورَةً sabbūratan	السَّبُّورَةَ as-sabbūrata	سَبُّورَةَ sabbūrata
genitive	سَبُّورَةٍ sabbūratin	السَّبُّورَةِ as-sabbūrati	سَبُّورَةِ sabbūrati
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	سَبُّورَتَيْن sabbūratayn	السَّبُّورَتَيْن as-sabbūratayn	سَبُّورَتَيْ sabbūratay
nominative	سَبُّورَتَانِ sabbūratāni	السَّبُّورَتَانِ as-sabbūratāni	سَبُّورَتَا sabbūratā
accusative	سَبُّورَتَيْنِ sabbūratayni	السَّبُّورَتَيْنِ as-sabbūratayni	سَبُّورَتَيْ sabbūratay
genitive	سَبُّورَتَيْنِ sabbūratayni	السَّبُّورَتَيْنِ as-sabbūratayni	سَبُّورَتَيْ sabbūratay
plural	sound feminine plural
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	سَبُّورات sabbūrāt	السَّبُّورات as-sabbūrāt	سَبُّورات sabbūrāt
nominative	سَبُّوراتٌ sabbūrātun	السَّبُّوراتُ as-sabbūrātu	سَبُّوراتُ sabbūrātu
accusative	سَبُّوراتٍ sabbūrātin	السَّبُّوراتِ as-sabbūrāti	سَبُّوراتِ sabbūrāti
genitive	سَبُّوراتٍ sabbūrātin	السَّبُّوراتِ as-sabbūrāti	سَبُّوراتِ sabbūrāti

Descendants

• Gulf Arabic: صبورة (ṣabūra, “whiteboard, board”)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “سبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Hijazi Arabic

Root
س ب ر
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic سَبُّورَة (sabbūra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sab.buː.ra/, [sˤab.buː.ra]

Noun

سًبُّورَة • (sabbūra) f (plural سَبُّورات (sabbūrāt))

1. slate; blackboard; whiteboard