sabre

See also: sabré and Sâbre

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Hungarian szablya, cognate with Danish sabel, Russian са́бля (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian сабља.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈseɪ.bə(ɹ)/
  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈseɪ.bɚ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)

Noun

sabre (plural sabres)

  1. (Britain, Canada) A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
  2. (Britain, Canada, fencing) A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.

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

Verb

sabre (third-person singular simple present sabres, present participle sabring, simple past and past participle sabred)

  1. (Britain, Canada, transitive) To strike or kill with a sabre.

Quotations

  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:sabre.

See also

Anagrams

Asturian

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

  1. Alternative form of sable

Basque

Alternative forms

Noun

sabre

  1. sabre, saber

Catalan

Etymology

From French sabre, from German Säbel.

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

  1. sabre

French

Etymology

From German Säbel.

Pronunciation

  • audio(file)
  • IPA(key): /sabʁ/

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

  1. a single-edged sword
  2. the force, arms
  3. cutlassfish

Further reading

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology

From French sabre, from German Säbel, from Hungarian szablya.

Pronunciation

Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)

  1. sabre (military weapon)
  2. sabre (fencing weapon)
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