Sabra

See also: sabra, sabrá, and sabrà

English

Borrowed from Hebrew צַבָּר (tsabár, “prickly pear cactus”).

Sabra (plural Sabras)

A native-born Israeli.
- 1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 45:
  One night a real Israeli came to speak. I had never seen a sabra before.
- 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:
  Even the phoenix of Zionism that rose from those ashes--the muscular sabras trying to reestablish a home in an unforgiving land surrounded by hostile Arabs--resonated too closely with my white African narrative.

Sabra

native Israeli