sabir

UK /səˈbɪə(ɹ)/ US /sɑˈbɪɹ/

name 5noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

lacking, sloppy, ungrammatical

VERB + SABIR

date, said

SABIR + NOUN

attic, salt

ADV.

also, successfully

Definitions

noun

a lingua franca

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.

name

An Italian-based pidgin language used as the lingua franca of Mediterranean trade from roughly the 11th to the 19th centuries.

noun

A member of a (possibly Turkic) people or tribe who lived around the Caspian before the arrival of the Avars.

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Example Bank

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.

Wiktionary

[…] could hardly be anything else but Hungarian. Beyond the Hungarian presence in this polyglot state, there were, he suggested, speakers of Bulğar Turkic, Türk and Sabir (which he viewed as Common Tu

Wiktionary

“More than 6,500 people have climbed Everest while only 337 have conquered K2 to date,” said Sabir, who also successfully scaled Mount Everest.

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In some senses, sabir is marked as historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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