sabre

• (chiefly US): saber

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪ.bə(ɹ)/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪ.bɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)

sabre (plural sabres)

1. (Britain, Canada) A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
2. (Britain, Canada, fencing) A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.

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).

• lightsaber, lightsabre
• sabrage

sabre (third-person singular simple present sabres, present participle sabring, simple past and past participle sabred)

1. (Britain, Canada, transitive) To strike or kill with a sabre.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:sabre.

• sabrer
• sabreur

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

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. Alternative form of sable

• sable

sabre

1. sabre, saber

From French sabre, from German Säbel.

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sabre

From German Säbel.

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• IPA^(key): /sabʁ/

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. a single-edged sword
2. the force, arms
3. cutlassfish

• “sabre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• baser, brase, brasé

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sand

• AEDLL

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.βɾɯ̽/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.bɾi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.bɾe/
• Hyphenation: sa‧bre

sabre m (plural sabres)

1. sabre (military weapon)
2. sabre (fencing weapon)

• espada, esgrima, florete