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sabre

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

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sare

English

Alternative forms

  • sear

Adjective

sare (comparative sarer, superlative sarest)

  1. (Britain, archaic) dry, withered
    Burn ash-wood green, 'tis a fire for a queen;
    Burn ash-wood sare, 'twool make a man sware.
  2. (dialectal, Kent, archaic) tender, rotten
  3. (dialectal, Northern England, archaic) melancholy, bad, severe

Adverb

sare (comparative sarer, superlative sarest)

  1. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, archaic) much, very much, greatly

Anagrams

  • AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, arse, ears, eras, rase, reas, sear, sera

Aromanian

Noun

sare

  1. Alternative form of sari

Basque

Noun

sare

  1. net

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *sër?.

Noun

sa?e

  1. bilberry

Inflection

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Javanese

Verb

sare

  1. Dated spelling of saré.

Noun

sare

  1. Dated spelling of saré.

Makasar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?sar?]

Verb

sare (Lontara spelling ???, semi-transitive assare)

  1. (transitive) to give

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

sare

  1. inflection of saras:
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural
  2. inflection of sara:
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural

Portuguese

Verb

sare

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of sarar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of sarar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of sarar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of sarar

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sale, from Latin s?l, salem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh?l-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?sa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are

Noun

sare f (plural s?ruri)

  1. salt

Declension

Related terms

  • s?ra
  • s?rat
  • s?r?tur?
  • s?nin?
  • s?rune

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

sare (n class, plural sare)

  1. uniform (distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group)
  2. (sports) a draw (tie between two teams)

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