سبر

From Aramaic סְבַר (sḇar) in a very narrow meaning, apparently only back-formed from سِبَار (sibār), مِسْبَار (misbār), مِسْبَر (misbar, “probe”).

• IPA^(key): /sa.ba.ra/

سَبَرَ • (sabara) I (non-past يَسْبُرُ (yasburu) or يَسْبِرُ (yasbiru), verbal noun سَبْر (sabr)) (transitive)

1. to probe into (a hole, like a well) so as to measure its depth; to gauge; to sound

   Synonym: قَاسَ (qāsa)

   1. (figurative) to probe into (someone) as if measuring him; to gauge; to sound; to judge; to weigh up

• IPA^(key): /sabr/

سَبْر • (sabr) m

1. verbal noun of سَبَر (sabar) (form I), probing, prodding

• IPA^(key): /sabr/, /sibr/

سَبْر or سِبْر • (sabr or sibr) m (plural أَسْبَار (ʔasbār)) (countable)

1. measure, habit, form, appearance, garb, features, likeness, mien

   Synonyms: هَيْئَة (hayʔa), صُورَة (ṣūra)

2. (obsolete) source, origin, root

   Synonym: أَصْل (ʔaṣl)

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 612–613
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 261
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “سبر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 277b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سبر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1043a
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “سبر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1293
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سبر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 478a
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “سبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 458a

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• IPA^(key):

سبر (sabur)

1. yesterday

   Synonym: ساٹݵ (saaṭi)

• Bechtholdt, Astrid (2024) “sabur”, in Burushaski Hunza Dictionary (Webonary), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2017.