س ب ر

Arabic

Etymology

Denominal origin from سَبُّورَة‎ (sabbūra, “slate, board”) and مِسْبَار‎ (misbār), مِسْبَر‎ (misbar), سِبَار‎ (sibār, “probe”)

Root

س ب ر • (s-b-r)

  1. to probe into, slate, blackboard, whiteboard

Derived terms
Verbs and verb derivatives
  • Form I: سَبَرَ‎ (sabara, “to probe into”)
    • Verbal noun: سَبْر‎ (sabr)
    • Active participle: سَابِر‎ (sābir)
    • Passive participle: مَسْبُور‎ (masbūr)
  • Form VIII: اِسْتَبَرَ‎ (istabara, “to probe into”)
    • Verbal noun: اِسْتِبَار‎ (istibār)
    • Active participle: مُسْتَبِر‎ (mustabir)
    • Passive participle: مُسْتَبَر‎ (mustabar)
  • سِبْر‎ (sibr, “measure, appearance, habit, manner of being”)
  • مَسْبَر‎ (masbar, “internal state of things, intrinsic quality”)
  • سَبْرَة‎ (sabra, “cold morn”)

References
  • Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, 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
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