sabir

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/sɑˈbɪɹ/(US)
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/sɑˈbɪɹ/(US) · /sɑˈbɪɚ/(US) · /sɑˈbɪə/(US) · /səˈbɪə(ɹ)/(UK) · /sɑˈbiɹ/(US) · /sɑˈbiə/(US) · /səˈbɪə/(UK)

Definition of sabir

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. a lingua franca
    “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.”
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noun

  1. a lingua franca
    “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.”
  2. (historical)A member of a (possibly Turkic) people or tribe who lived around the Caspian before the arrival of the Avars.

name

  1. (historical)An Italian-based pidgin language used as the lingua franca of Mediterranean trade from roughly the 11th to the 19th centuries.
  2. The (probably Turkic) language spoken by these people.
    “[…] 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.”
  3. A male given name from Arabic.
  4. A surname.
  5. Any of several places in Azerbaijan.

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Etymology

From Sabir.

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