sabre
English
Alternative forms
- (chiefly US): saber
Etymology
Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian са́бля (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian сабља.
Noun
sabre (plural sabres)
Usage notes
This spelling has become relatively common in the United States due to the Buffalo Sabres hockey team as well as the occasional tendency to use British spellings for archaic nouns (compare theater versus theatre).
Derived terms
Translations
light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point
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modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre
Verb
sabre (third-person singular simple present sabres, present participle sabring, simple past and past participle sabred)
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:sabre.
French
Pronunciation
audio (file) - IPA(key): /sabʁ/
Further reading
- “sabre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsa.βɾɯ̽/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsa.bɾi/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsa.bɾe/
- Hyphenation: sa‧bre
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