# sabre
## English
### Alternative forms

* saber (chiefly US)

### Etymology

Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian са́бля (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian сабља, Sicilian sciàbbula.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈseɪ.bə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US, Canada) IPA: /ˈseɪ.bɚ/
* Rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: sa‧bre

### Noun

sabre (plural sabres)
* (British spelling, Canadian spelling) A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
** 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 6:Jewan Sadit, who ſtood before the prince, obſerving his youthful temerity, threw himſelf between him and danger, and with a nervous arm, wielding a ſharp ſabre, of the hard tempered ſteel of Damiſk, ruſhing upon the tyger, he ſtruck him acroſs the forehead.
* (British spelling, Canadian spelling, 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

* false sabre-toothed cat
* lightsaber, lightsabre
* rattle a sabre
* rattle one's sabre
* rattle the sabre
* sabrage
* sabre carp
* sabre leg
* sabre-rattle
* sabre rattle
* sabre-rattling
* sabre rattling
* sabre saw
* sabre-tooth
* sabre-toothed
* sabre-toothed cat
* sabre-toothed tiger

#### Translations
### Verb

sabre (third-person singular simple present sabres, present participle sabring, simple past and past participle sabred)
* (British spelling, Canadian spelling, transitive) To strike or kill with a sabre.
* (British spelling, Canadian spelling, transitive) To open (a bottle) via sabrage.

#### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:sabre.

### See also

* en coup de sabre
* sabrer
* sabreur

### Anagrams

* saber, bares, rabes, besra, Saber, Bears, baser, Brase, barse, bears, BSAer, Breas, Bares, braes

## Asturian
### Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)
* Alternative form of sable

## Basque
### Alternative forms

* sable

### Noun

sabre
* sabre, saber

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈsa.βɾə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈsa.bɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈsa.bɾe]

### Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)
* sabre
* the silver scabbardfish (Lepidopus caudatus)
    Synonyms: cinturó, serp de mar

#### Derived terms

* sabre cuafí
* sabre de sant Simó
* sabrista

### Further reading

* “sabre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “sabre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “sabre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “sabre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

From German Säbel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sabʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)
* a single-edged sword
* the force, arms
* cutlassfish

#### Derived terms

* avaleur de sabre
* sabre au clair
* sabre laser
* tigre à dents de sabre

#### Descendants

* → English: sabre

### Further reading

* “sabre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* baser, brase, brasé

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsa.bre/
* Rhymes: -abre
* Hyphenation: sà‧bre

### Noun

sabre m or f by sense (invariable)
* Alternative form of sabra

### Adjective

sabre (invariable)
* Alternative form of sabra

### Anagrams

* serba

## Leonese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)
* sand

### References

* AEDLL

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsa.bɾi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsa.bɾi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsa.bɾe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsa.bɾɨ/ [ˈsa.βɾɨ]
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -abɾi, (Portugal) -abɾɨ
* Hyphenation: sa‧bre

### Noun

sabre m (plural sabres)
* sabre (military weapon)
* sabre (fencing weapon)

#### Related terms

* espada, esgrima, florete

### Further reading

* “sabre” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “sabre”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “sabre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025