Sabir

Meanings

Proper Noun

• An Italian-based pidgin language used as the lingua franca of Mediterranean trade from roughly the 11th to the 19th centuries.
• The (probably Turkic) language spoken by these people.
• A male given name from Arabic.
• Any of several places in Azerbaijan.

Noun

• A member of a (possibly Turkic) people or tribe who lived around the Caspian before the arrival of the Avars.

Related

Similar words

• Lingua Franca, lingua Franca, lingua franca
• Mediterranean Lingua Franca, Mediterranean lingua franca

Origin

• From Sabir sabir ("know"), in Molière's Le bourgeois gentilhomme, probably from Spanish saber, ultimately from Latin sapio.
• Cognate to Greek Σαβινος, Σαβιροι.
• Ultimately from Arabic صَابِر.
• From Azerbaijani Sabir or Səbir.