صبر

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.ba.ra/
• IPA^(key): /sˤab.ba.ra/
• IPA^(key): /sˤabr/
• IPA^(key): /sˤa.bar/

صَبَرَ • (ṣabara) I (non-past يَصْبِرُ (yaṣbiru), verbal noun صَبْر (ṣabr))

1. to be patient, to have patience
2. to bind, to tie, to fetter, to shackle
3. to persevere, to endure
4. to refrain, to abstain, to renounce

صَبَّرَ • (ṣabbara) II (non-past يُصَبِّرُ (yuṣabbiru), verbal noun تَصْبِير (taṣbīr))

1. to ask to be patient, to admonish to be patient
2. to console, to comfort
3. to conserve
4. to preserve, to can

صَبْر • (ṣabr) m

1. verbal noun of صَبَرَ (ṣabara) (form I)
2. fettering, shackling
3. patience, forbearance

   الصَّبْرُ مِفْتَاحُ ٱلْفَرَجِ (saying)

   aṣ-ṣabru miftāḥu l-faraji

   Patience is the key to deliverance.

   قَلَّ صَبْرُهُ.

   qalla ṣabruhu.

   His patience ran out.

4. composure, self-control
5. equanimity, steadfastness
6. perseverance, endurance, hardiness

• → Armenian: սաբր (sabr)
• → Azerbaijani: səbir
• → Bashkir: сабыр (sabır, “patience”)
• → Bengali: সবর (śobor)
• → Bashkir: сабыр (sabır, “patience”)
• Kurdish:

  → Central Kurdish: سەبر (sebir)

  → Northern Kurdish: sebir

• → Malay: sabar
  • > Indonesian: sabar (inherited)
• → Northern Luri: سۋر
• → Ottoman Turkish: صبر
  • Turkish: sabır
  • →⇒ Laz: ისაპრამს (isap̌rams, “to be patient”), ისარბამს (isarbams) — Atina
• → Persian: صبر
• → Rohingya: sobór
• → Swahili: subira
• → Turkmen: sabyr
• → Uyghur: سەۋر (sewr)
• → Uzbek: sabr

صَبَر • (ṣabar) m (collective, singulative صَبَرَة f (ṣabara), plural أَصْبَار (ʔaṣbār))

1. (collective) ice

Borrowed from Aramaic, found in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic צברה and Classical Syriac ܨܒܪܐ (ṣabrā, ṣabbārā), ܨܘܪܐ (ṣawrā), from Akkadian [script needed] (ṣibaru, ṣiburu, “a pointed gardening instrument; a fleshy excrescence; a plant in medical texts a medication for gall-bladder disease, apparently aloe comparable to the garden-tool by its lanceolate leaves”). For relevant vocalization variants, against the standard Arabic صَبِر (ṣabir, “aloe”) and صَبْر (ṣabr, “aloe”), the Andalusi dialect, which has been reckoned the most conservative of the Middle Arabic ones, used صِبْر (ṣibr) and صِبَر (ṣibar), and صَبَّار (ṣabbār), صُبَّار (ṣubbār, “cactus; nonstandardly and also Andalusi aloe”) is extended from this word.

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.bir/

صَبِر or صَبْر • (ṣabir or ṣabr) m

2. aloe

   Synonyms: أَلْوَة (ʔalwa), مَقْر (maqr)

3. (Classical Arabic) bitterness; juice of any bitter plant, aloe, myrrh

   Synonym: مَقْر (maqr)

• → Middle Armenian: սապռ (sapṙ), սապր (sapr)
  • Armenian: սապռ (sapṙ), սապր (sapr, “bitter substance spread on nipples to wean off babies”) (dialectal)
• → Catalan: sèver, acèver
• → Ottoman Turkish: صبر (sabır)
  • Turkish: sabır
• → Persian: صبر (saber)
• → Portuguese: azebre, azevre, azever, azevar, acevar, acêvar, acêver
• → Punjabi: ਸਬਰ (sabar)
• → Spanish: acíbar

Denominal verb of صَابُورَة (ṣābūra, “ballast”).

صَبَّرَ • (ṣabbara) II (non-past يُصَبِّرُ (yuṣabbiru), verbal noun تَصْبِير (taṣbīr))

1. (nautical) to ballast

• “ṣbr²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “صبر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 476–477
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “صبر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1305–1306
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “صبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “صبر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 693–694

صبر (Sabar)

1. Sabir

• Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası‎^[4], Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 86

صبر

1. Jawi spelling of sabar.‎

From Arabic صبر.

صبر • (ṣabbar) II (non-past يصبّر (yṣabber))

1. to embalm (a corpse)
2. to stuff (an animal)
3. to turn into ice, to freeze
4. to become numb from the cold

Borrowed from Arabic صَبْر (ṣabr).

صبر • (sabr)

1. patience, tolerating, endurance
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 348”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[5]:

     دیده دریا کنم و صبر به صحرا فکنم
     واندر این کار دل خویش به دریا فکنم

     dīda daryā kunam u sabr ba sahrā fikanam
     w-andar īn kār dil-i xwēš ba daryā fikanam

     I make my eyes an ocean, and throw patience to the desert;
     And while doing this, I throw my heart into the ocean.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “صبر”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian صبر (sabr), from Arabic صَبْر (ṣabr). Compare Urdu صبر.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsə.bəɾ/, [ˈsɐ.bəɾə̆]
• Rhymes: -əɾ

صَبر • (sabăr) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਬਰ)

1. patience, forbearance

   Synonym: حوصلہ (ḥauṉṣlā)

2. tolerance
3. contentment

• “صبر”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
• “ਸਬਰ”, in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Dictionary, SriGranth.org, 2025

From Arabic صَبَرَ (ṣabara).

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.bar/, [ˈsˤɑ.bɑrˤ]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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صبر • (ṣabar) I (present بصبر (boṣbor))

1. to be patient

From Arabic صَبْر (ṣabr).

• IPA^(key): /sˤabr/, [ˈsˤɑ.b(ɪ)rˤ]

• Audio (Ramallah):

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صبر • (ṣabr) m

1. patience

Borrowed from Classical Persian صبر (sabr), from Arabic صَبْر (ṣabr). Compare Bengali সবর (śobor).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /səbɾ/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /sə.bəɾ/
• Rhymes: -əbɾ, -əɾ

صبر • (sabr) m (Hindi spelling सब्र)

1. patience
2. tolerance

From Urdu صبر (sabar).

صبر (sabar)

1. patience
2. tolerance
3. satisfaction