sab

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

Root
s-j-b
11 terms

• 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’]

Conjugation of sab
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	sibt	sibt	sab		sibna	sibtu	sabu
	f			sabet
imperfect	m	nsib	ssib	jsib		nsibu	ssibu	jsibu
	f			ssib
imperative			sib				sibu

sab anim

1. net

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

sab (plural sabs)

1. sob

sab

1. sob