sabar

sabar (plural sabars)

1. A traditional drum from Senegal, generally played with one hand and one stick.

• Arabs, Baars, Baras, Basra, Sabra, abras, arbas, sabra

From Malay sabar, from Arabic صَبْر (ṣabr).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsabar/
• Rhymes: -bar, -ar, -r
• Hyphenation: sa‧bar

sabar (comparative lebih sabar, superlative paling sabar)

1. patient, forbearing

• “sabar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Arabic صَبْر (ṣabr).

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [sa.ba(r)]

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• (Baku) IPA^(key): [sa.bar]

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• (Kelantan-Pattani) IPA^(key): [sɔ.ba]

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• Rhymes: -abar, -bar, -ar
• Hyphenation: sa‧bar

sabar (Jawi spelling صبر)

1. patient

   Sabarlah, sekarang baru pukul 9.

   Be patient, it's only 9 o'clock.

2. calm

   Synonym: tenang

   Jawablah soalan ujian dengan sabar.

   Answer the test questions calmly.

• > Indonesian: sabar (inherited)

• “sabar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.bar/
• Rhymes: -abar

From Arabic صَبْر (ṣabr).

sabar m

1. patience (ability to wait)

   Synonym: paċenzja

2. patience, endurance (ability to accept sorrow and hardship)

   Synonym: paċenzja

   • 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “Lis-Sena l-Ġdida 1964”, in Fl-Arena:

     X’sejra ġġibilna ġewwa l-fardal tiegħek.
     ja Sena Ġdida?
     Ah! biegħed minna
     il-għelt, il-ġlied,
     id-demm bejn l-aħwa;
     rażżan ir-regħba u l-ġibdiet tal-ħakma,
     rattab l-irjus u l-qlub,
     ġibilna s-sabar ta’ xulxin, l-imħabba,
     ġibilna l-għaqda,
     ġibilna s-sliem,
     ġibilna l-ħelsien!

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From Arabic صَبَرَ (ṣabara).

sabar (imperfect jisbor, past participle misbur, active participle sieber)

1. to tolerate, to be patient

Probably from Wolof sab (“to sing, yell, resonate, chirp, echo”). Both possibly borrowed from Serer.

sabar (definite form sabar gi)

1. a traditional drum used in Wolof and Serer music

• Fal, Arame, Santos, Rosine, Doneux, Jean Léonce (1990) Dictionnaire wolof-français, Paris: Éditions KARTHALA, →ISBN, page 185