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Arabic
Etymology
Denominal origin from سَبُّورَة (sabbūra, “slate, board”) and مِسْبَار (misbār), مِسْبَر (misbar), سِبَار (sibār, “probe”). Also possibly cognate to Hebrew ס־ב־ר (s-b-r).
Root
س ب ر • (s b r)
- to probe into, slate, blackboard, whiteboard
- to fathom, to understand
- Synonym: فَهِمَ (fahima)
Derived terms
- Verbs and verb derivatives
- سِبْر (sibr, “measure, appearance, habit, manner of being”)
- مَسْبَر (masbar, “internal state of things, intrinsic quality”)
- سَبْرَة (sabra, “cold morn”)
References
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “س ب ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “س ب ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
- 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) “س ب ر”, 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