سبر

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • Verb: IPA(key): /sa.ba.ra/
  • Noun 1: IPA(key): /sabr/
  • Noun 2: IPA(key): /sibr/

Etymology 1

Root
س ب ر (s-b-r)

From Aramaic סְבַר (sḇar) in a very narrow meaning, apparently only back-formed from سِبَار (sibār), مِسْبَار (misbār), مِسْبَر (misbar, probe).

Verb

سَبَرَ • (sabara) I, non-past يَسْبُرُ or يَسْبِرُ‎ (yasburu or yasbiru) (transitive)

  1. to probe into (a hole, like a well) so as to measure its depth; to guage; to sound
    Synonym: قَاسَ (qāsa)
    1. (figurative) to probe into (someone) as if measuring him; to guage; to sound; to judge; to weigh up
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Root
س ب ر (s-b-r)

Noun

سَبْر • (sabr) m

  1. verbal noun of سَبَر (sabar) (form I)
Declension

Noun

سَبْر or سِبْر • (sabr or sibr) m (plural أَسْبَار (ʔasbār)) (countable)

  1. mien
    Synonym: هَيْئَة (hayʔa)
Declension

Further reading

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 612–613
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 261
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سبر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 277b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سبر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1043a
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سبر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1293
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سبر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 478a
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “سبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 458a

Burushaski

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sabur]

Adverb

سبر (sabur)

  1. yesterday
    Synonym: ساٹݵ (saaṭi)

References

  • Bechtholdt, Astrid (2024) “sabur”, in Burushaski Hunza Dictionary (Webonary) (in Burushaski), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2017:(in Latin script).
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