sabla
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EsperantoEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /sa.bla/
- Homophones: sablas, sablât
VerbEdit
sabla
- third-person singular past historic of sabler
AnagramsEdit
IdoEdit
OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *sabla, from Latin sabula, from the plural of sabulum, variant of sabulō. Compare French sable, Italian sabbia.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sabla f (uncountable)
SynonymsEdit
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Adjective attested since 1889. A combination of the expletives satan (literary "Satan") and djävla ("devil") and associated with sabel ("sabre"). The literal meaning of the verb is attested since 1610 and the figurative meaning since 1957.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
sabla
- A mild expletive; darn.
- Det var en sabla otur att jag kom för sent.
- "It was darned unlucky that I was late."
SynonymsEdit
VerbEdit
sabla (present sablar, preterite sablade, supine sablat, imperative sabla)
- (archaic) To saber.
- Kavalleristerna sablade de flyende bönderna.
- "The cavalry soldiers sabred the fleeing peasants."
- Used with the particle ned ("down"), especially in the meaning "to criticize mercilessly"; to pan.
- Den nya pjäsen blev nedsablad av en enad kritikerkår.
- "The new play was unanimously panned by the critics."
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of sabla (weak)
Conjugation of sabla ned
| Active | Passive | |
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | sabla ned | - |
| Present tense | sablar ned | - |
| Past tense | sablade ned | - |
| Supine | sablat ned | - |
| Imperative | sabla ned | - |
| Present participle | nedsablande | |
| Past participle | nedsablad | |
SynonymsEdit
- sabla ner (variant spelling)