different between sabre vs bayonet

English

Alternative forms

• (chiefly US): saber

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian ?????? (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian ?????.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?se?.b?(?)/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?se?.b?/
• Rhymes: -e?b?(?)
• Hyphenation: sa?bre

Noun

sabre (plural sabres)

1. (Britain, Canada) A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
2. (Britain, Canada, fencing) A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.

Usage notes

This spelling has become relatively common in the United States due to the Buffalo Sabres hockey team as well as the occasional tendency to use British spellings for archaic nouns (compare theater versus theatre).

Derived terms

• lightsaber, lightsabre
• sabrage

Translations

Verb

sabre (third-person singular simple present sabres, present participle sabring, simple past and past participle sabred)

1. (Britain, Canada, transitive) To strike or kill with a sabre.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sabre.

See also

• sabrer
• sabreur

Anagrams

• BSAer, Bares, Brase, Breas, Saber, bares, barse, baser, bears, besra, braes, rabes, saber

Asturian

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. Alternative form of sable

Basque

Alternative forms

• sable

Noun

sabre

1. sabre, saber

Catalan

Etymology

From French sabre, from German Säbel.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?sa.b??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sa.b?e/

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sabre

Further reading

• “sabre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sabre” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sabre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sabre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From German Säbel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sab?/

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. a single-edged sword
2. the force, arms
3. cutlassfish

Derived terms

• sabre laser
• tigre à dents de sabre

Descendants

• ? English: sabre

Further reading

• “sabre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• baser, brase, brasé

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.bre/
• Hyphenation: sà?bre

Noun

sabre m or f (invariable)

1. Alternative form of sabra

Adjective

sabre (invariable)

1. Alternative form of sabra

Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sand

References

• AEDLL

Portuguese

Etymology

From French sabre, from German Säbel, from Hungarian szablya.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?sa.????/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?sa.b?i/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?sa.b?e/
• Hyphenation: sa?bre

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sabre (military weapon)
2. sabre (fencing weapon)

Related terms

• espada, esgrima, florete

English

Etymology

From French baïonnette, named after the French town of Bayonne, where the plug bayonet was invented.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?be??n?t/, /?be??n?t/, /?be???n?t/
• (General American) enPR: b?'?-n?t?, b???-n?t, b???-n?t', IPA^(key): /?be???n?t/, /?be??n??t/, /?be???n?t/
• Rhymes: -?t, -e??n?t, -e??n?t

Noun

bayonet (plural bayonets)

1. (military) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offence and defence. Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which needed to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xvi:

     Fig. 3. Its bayonet, to be fixed by sticking the handle into the muzzle of the musquet.
2. (engineering) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• knife
• spear
• sword

Verb

bayonet (third-person singular simple present bayonets, present participle bayoneting or bayonetting, simple past and past participle bayoneted or bayonetted)

1. (transitive) To stab with a bayonet.
2. (transitive) To compel or drive by the bayonet.
   • 1774, Edmund Burke, A Speech on American Taxation

     to bayonet us into a submission

Usage notes

The spelling bayoneting and bayoneted are preferred in the US, while bayonetting and bayonetted are preferred in the UK.

Anagrams

• Oytaben

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bajonet, from French baïonnette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ba?jon?t]
• Hyphenation: ba?yo?nèt

Noun

bayonet (first-person possessive bayonetku, second-person possessive bayonetmu, third-person possessive bayonetnya)

1. bayonet,
   1. (military) a pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offence and defence. Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which needed to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired.
   2. (engineering) a pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.

Further reading

• “bayonet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.