Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Sable-coloured, black. · In blazon, of the colour black. · Made of sable fur. · Dark, somber.
A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur. · Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana). · A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur. · An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
Attested since 1275, from Middle English sable, from Old French sable and martre sable (“sable marten”), in reference to the animal or its fur; from Medieval Latin sabelum, from Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel, whence German Zobel); ultimately from a Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Compare also Middle Persian smwl (*samōr).
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