sabir
/sɑˈbɪɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.90 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
name
An Italian-based pidgin language used as the lingua franca of Mediterranean trade from roughly the 11th to the 19th centuries.
noun
A member of a (possibly Turkic) people or tribe who lived around the Caspian before the arrival of the Avars.
name
A male given name from Arabic.
name
A surname.
name
Any of several places in Azerbaijan.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[…] 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."
Etymology
From Sabir.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /sɑˈbɪɹ/
- British English: /səˈbɪə(ɹ)/
Inflected Forms
sabirs (plural)
Savir (alternative)
Phrases
Wiktionary’s coverage of Sabir terms
Frequently Paired Words
Wiktionary’s coverage of Sabir terms