Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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An Italian-based pidgin language used as the lingua franca of Mediterranean trade from roughly the 11th to the 19th centuries.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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name
The (probably Turkic) language spoken by these people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A male given name from Arabic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Any of several places in Azerbaijan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a lingua franca
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noun
A member of a (possibly Turkic) people or tribe who lived around the Caspian before the arrival of the Avars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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History
Borrowed from Sabir sabir (“know”), in Molière's Le bourgeois gentilhomme, probably from Spanish saber, ultimately from Latin sapere.
Possibly a native Turkic formation; see Sabir. Cognate to Greek Σαβίνος (Savínos), Σάβιροι (Sáviroi).
Ultimately from Arabic صَابِر (ṣābir).
From Azerbaijani Sabir or Səbir.
From Sabir.
