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Sabir.

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

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/sɑˈbiɹ/US/sɑˈbiə/US/səˈbɪə/UK
  1. An Italian-based pidgin language used as the lingua franca of Mediterranean trade from roughly the 11th to the 19th centuries.

    historical
Where this word comes from

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

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

    historical
Where this word comes from

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

name
  1. The (probably Turkic) language spoken by these people.

Where this word comes from

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

name
  1. A male given name from Arabic.

Where this word comes from

Ultimately from Arabic صَابِر (ṣābir).

name
  1. A surname.

name
  1. Any of several places in Azerbaijan.

Where this word comes from

From Azerbaijani Sabir or Səbir.

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