सब्र

Hindi

Alternative forms

सबर (sabar) — pronunciation spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (sabr), from Arabic صَبْر (ṣabr). Compare Bengali সবর (śobor).

Pronunciation

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /səbɾ/, [sɐbɾ], /sə.bəɾ/, [sɐ.bɐɾ]

Noun

सब्र • (sabr) m (Urdu spelling صبر)

patience
Synonym: धैर्य (dhairya)
persistence, endurance
मैं यह दर्द कैसे सब्र कर पाऊँगा?
ma͠i yah dard kaise sabra kar pāūṅgā?
How will I endure this pain?

Declension

Declension of सब्र (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	सब्र sabr	सब्र sabr
oblique	सब्र sabr	सब्रों sabrõ
vocative	सब्र sabr	सब्रो sabro

Derived terms

सब्र करना (sabr karnā)
बेसब्र (besabr)
बेसब्री (besabrī)

References

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सब्र”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 983

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