sabla
Esperanto
Adjective
sabla (accusative singular sablan, plural sablaj, accusative plural sablajn)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.bla/
- Homophones: sablas, sablât
Verb
sabla
- third-person singular past historic of sabler
Anagrams
Ido
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
sabla
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *sabla, from Latin sabula, from the plural of sabulum, variant of sabulō. Compare French sable, Italian sabbia.
Pronunciation
Noun
sabla f (uncountable)
Synonyms
Swedish
Etymology
Adjective attested since 1889. A combination of the expletives satan (literary "Satan") and djävla ("devil") and associated with sabel ("sabre"). The literal meaning of the verb is attested since 1610 and the figurative meaning since 1957.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sabla
- A mild expletive; darn.
- Det var en sabla otur att jag kom för sent.
- "It was darned unlucky that I was late."
Synonyms
Verb
sabla (present sablar, preterite sablade, supine sablat, imperative sabla)
- (archaic) To saber.
- Kavalleristerna sablade de flyende bönderna.
- "The cavalry soldiers sabred the fleeing peasants."
- Used with the particle ned ("down"), especially in the meaning "to criticize mercilessly"; to pan.
- Den nya pjäsen blev nedsablad av en enad kritikerkår.
- "The new play was unanimously panned by the critics."
Conjugation
Conjugation of sabla (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | sabla | sablas | ||
Supine | sablat | sablats | ||
Imperative | sabla | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | sablen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | sablar | sablade | sablas | sablades |
Ind. plural1 | sabla | sablade | sablas | sablades |
Subjunctive2 | sable | sablade | sables | sablades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | sablande | |||
Past participle | sablad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Conjugation of sabla ned
Active | Passive | |
---|---|---|
Infinitive | sabla ned | - |
Present tense | sablar ned | - |
Past tense | sablade ned | - |
Supine | sablat ned | - |
Imperative | sabla ned | - |
Present participle | nedsablande | |
Past participle | nedsablad |
Synonyms
- sabla ner (variant spelling)
Related terms
Categories:
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto adjectives
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with homophones
- French non-lemma forms
- French verb forms
- Ido terms suffixed with -a
- Ido terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ido lemmas
- Ido adjectives
- Occitan terms inherited from Old Occitan
- Occitan terms derived from Old Occitan
- Occitan terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Occitan terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Occitan terms inherited from Latin
- Occitan terms derived from Latin
- Occitan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Occitan lemmas
- Occitan nouns
- Occitan feminine nouns
- Occitan uncountable nouns
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish adjectives
- Swedish verbs
- Swedish terms with archaic senses
- Swedish weak verbs
- Swedish irregular verbs