sabir
English edit
Etymology edit
From Sabir.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sabir (plural sabirs)
- 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 edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sabir m (plural sabirs)
Further reading edit
- “sabir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sabir n (uncountable)
Declension edit
Sabir edit
Etymology edit
From one or several Romance descendants of Latin sapere.
Verb edit
sabir
References edit
- Molière, Bourgeois Gentilhomme