English

Alternative forms

• sabir

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sɑˈbiɹ/, /s‌ɑˈbi‌ə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈbɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Proper noun

Sabir

1. (historical) An Italian-based pidgin language used as the lingua franca of Mediterranean trade from roughly the 11th to the 19th centuries.^[1][2]

Synonyms

• Lingua Franca, lingua Franca, lingua franca
• Mediterranean Lingua Franca, Mediterranean lingua franca

Etymology 2

Cognate to Greek Σαβίνος ‎(Savínos), Σάβιροι ‎(Sáviroi).

Alternative forms

• Savir

Noun

Sabir ‎(plural Sabirs)

1. A member of a (possibly Turkic) people or tribe who lived around the Caspian before the arrival of the Avars.

Proper noun

Sabir

1. The (probably Turkic) language spoken by these people.
   • 2007, Peter B. Golden, Haggai Ben-Shammai, András Róna-Tas, The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives, part 8, volume 17, page 14:

     […] 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.

Etymology 3

From Arabic صَبْر ‎(ṣabr, “patience”).

Proper noun

Sabir

1. A male given name.

Etymology 4

Proper noun

Sabir

1. A surname​.

Etymology 5

From Azeri.

Proper noun

Sabir

1. Any of several places in Azerbaijan with names spelled (in the Azerbaijani alphabet) Sabir or Səbir.

Anagrams

• rabis

References

1. ↑ Lingua franca del Mediterraneo or sabir (in Italian), article of Francesco Bruni
2. ↑ https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/www/franca/edition3/lingua5.html

English

Noun

sabir ‎(plural sabirs)

1. a lingua franca
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     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.

Anagrams

• rabis