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sabir¹

  • /sɑˈbɪɹ/ US
  • /sɑˈbɪɚ/ US
  • /sɑˈbɪə/ US
  • /səˈbɪə(ɹ)/ UK

Rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Sabir.

noun sabirs

  1. a lingua franca 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.

Sabir²

  • /sɑˈbiɹ/ US
  • /sɑˈbiə/ US
  • /səˈbɪə/ UK

Rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Sabir sabir (“know”), in Molière's Le bourgeois gentilhomme, probably from Spanish saber, ultimately from Latin sapere.

proper noun sabir

  1. historical An Italian-based pidgin language used as the lingua franca of Mediterranean trade from roughly the 11th to the 19th centuries.

    Similar: Lingua Franca, lingua franca, Mediterranean Lingua Franca, Mediterranean lingua franca

Sabir³

Where it comes from

Possibly a native Turkic formation; see Sabir. Cognate to Greek Σαβίνος (Savínos), Σάβιροι (Sáviroi).

noun Sabirs · Savir

  1. historical A member of a (possibly Turkic) people or tribe who lived around the Caspian before the arrival of the Avars.

proper noun Savir

  1. The (probably Turkic) language spoken by these people. […] 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.

Sabir⁴

Where it comes from

Ultimately from Arabic صَابِر (ṣābir).

proper noun

  1. A male given name from Arabic.

Sabir⁵

proper noun

  1. A surname.

Sabir⁶

Where it comes from

From Azerbaijani Sabir or Səbir.

proper noun

  1. Any of several places in Azerbaijan.

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"sabir." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sabir. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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sabir. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sabir

Chicago

"sabir." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sabir.

BibTeX
@misc{sabir_2026,
  title = {sabir},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sabir},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}