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صبر

Pronunciation: /sˤa.ba.ra/

“صبر” is an Arabic word. Its 17 meanings in English:

verb

  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
  5. to ask to be patient, to admonish to be patient
  6. to console, to comfort
  7. to conserve
  8. to preserve, to can
  9. to ballast

noun

  1. fettering, shackling
  2. patience, forbearance
  3. composure, self-control
  4. equanimity, steadfastness
  5. perseverance, endurance, hardiness
  6. ice
  7. aloe
  8. bitterness; juice of any bitter plant, aloe, myrrh

Etymology

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,…

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