س ب ر

Arabic

Etymology

Denominal origin from سَبُّورَة (sabbūra, “slate, board”) and مِسْبَار (misbār), مِسْبَر (misbar), سِبَار (sibār, “probe”). Also possibly cognate to Hebrew ס־ב־ר (s-b-r).

Root

س ب ر • (s-b-r)

1. to probe into, slate, blackboard, whiteboard
2. to fathom, to understand

   Synonym: فَهِمَ (fahima)

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

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “س ب ر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “س ب ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, 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^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 277b