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

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sa.biʁ/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

sabir m (plural sabirs)

  1. lingua franca, sabir

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabir.

Noun

sabir n (uncountable)

  1. sabir

Declension
declension of sabir (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) sabir sabirul
genitive/dative (unui) sabir sabirului
vocative sabirule

Sabir

Etymology

From one or several Romance descendants of Latin sapere.

Verb

sabir

  1. know

References
  • Molière, Bourgeois Gentilhomme
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