sabir

See also: Sabir and sabır

English

Etymology

From Sabir.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sɑˈbɪɹ/, /sɑˈbɪɚ/, /sɑˈbɪə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈbɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

sabir (plural sabirs)

1. a lingua franca
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge.

Anagrams

• Bairs, Särbi, abris, baris, rabis

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.biʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

sabir m (plural sabirs)

1. lingua franca, sabir

Further reading

• “sabir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabir.

Noun

sabir n (uncountable)

1. sabir

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sabir	sabirul
genitive-dative	sabir	sabirului
vocative	sabirule

Sabir

Etymology

From one or several Romance descendants of Latin sapere.

Verb

sabir

1. know

References

• Molière, Bourgeois Gentilhomme