sab

sab

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Buglere.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Buglere terms

Short for sabotage.

sab (third-person singular simple present sabs, present participle sabbing, simple past and past participle sabbed)

1. (informal) To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports.

sab (plural sabs)

1. (informal) A saboteur, especially of fox hunts.

Short for sable.

sab (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of sab. (“sable”).

sab (plural sabs)

1. (UK, slang) A sabbatical officer.

• sabb

• 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

sab

1. obsolete form of sap

sab f (singulative saben)

1. pines

• pin

cf. Ojibwe asab

sab anim (plural sabiig)

1. net

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 117

From French sable (“sand”).

• IPA^(key): /sab/

sab

1. sand

• sieb

From Arabic أَصَابَ (ʔaṣāba). Compare Moroccan Arabic صاب (ṣāb).

• IPA^(key): /saːp/

sab (imperfect jsib, past participle misjub)

1. 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)

   1. to find (something or someone) useful
2. to catch
3. to look for
4. to find out, to realise
5. to be known as [with b’]

sab anim

1. net

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 117

sab (plural sabs)

1. sob

sab

1. sob