sab
Translingual
Symbol
sab
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Buglere terms
English
Etymology 1
Short for sabotage.
Verb
sab (third-person singular simple present sabs, present participle sabbing, simple past and past participle sabbed)
- (informal) To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports.
Noun
sab (plural sabs)
- (informal) A saboteur, especially of fox hunts.
Etymology 2
Short for sable.
Noun
sab (uncountable)
- Alternative form of sab. (“sable”).
Etymology 3
Noun
sab (plural sabs)
- (UK, slang) A sabbatical officer.
Alternative forms
Anagrams
- B.A.'s, BAs, SBA, Abs, B. A. S., ABs, abs, abs., Bas, ABS, BAS, bas, abs-, ASB, A.B.s, B.A.S., BSA, B.A.s
Catalan
Verb
sab
- obsolete form of sap
Cornish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
sab (collective, singulative saben f)
Eastern Ojibwa
Etymology
Noun
sab anim (plural sabiig)
References
Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001), Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 117
Haitian Creole
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sab/
Noun
sab
Maltese
| Root |
|---|
| s-j-b |
| 11 terms |
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Arabic أَصَابَ (ʔaṣāba). Compare Moroccan Arabic صاب (ṣāb).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saːp/
- Rhymes: -aːp
Verb
sab (imperfect jsib, past participle misjub)
- to find
- 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “Lis-Sena l-Ġdida 1964”, in Fl-Arena:
- Ja Sena Ġdida,
għalkemm mal-wasla tiegħek
sew f’nofs il-lejl
int sibtni nidħaq ġewwa nofs il-ballu- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to catch
- to look for
- to find out, to realise
- to be known as [with b’]
Conjugation
| positive forms | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| perfect | m | sibt | sibt | sab | sibna | sibtu | sabu | |
| f | sabet | |||||||
| imperfect | m | nsib | ssib | jsib | nsibu | ssibu | jsibu | |
| f | ssib | |||||||
| imperative | sib | sibu | ||||||
Ottawa
Noun
sab anim
References
Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001), Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 117
Scots
Noun
sab (plural sabs)
Verb
sab