English word origin

Etymology of Sabir

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

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Source etymology 1

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name

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

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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

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Borrowed-form mentionsabirpml
Derivation mentionsaberes
Derivation mentionsapiola

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Source etymology 2

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name

The (probably Turkic) language spoken by these people.

noun

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

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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

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Cognate mentionΣαβινοςel

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Source etymology 3

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name

A male given name from Arabic.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Ultimately from Arabic صَابِر (ṣābir).

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Derivation mentionصَابِرar
Root classification mentionص ب رar

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Source etymology 5

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name

Any of several places in Azerbaijan.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From Azerbaijani Sabir or Səbir.

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Derivation mentionSabiraz

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