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• saber (chiefly US)

語源

Borrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian са́бля (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian сабља, Sicilian sciàbbula.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈseɪ.bə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈseɪ.bɚ/
• 韻: -eɪbə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: sa‧bre

名詞

sabre (plural sabres) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. A light sword with a curved blade, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 6:

     Jewan Sadit, who ſtood before the prince, obſerving his youthful temerity, threw himſelf between him and danger, and with a nervous arm, wielding a ſharp ſabre, of the hard tempered ſteel of Damiſk, ruſhing upon the tyger, he ſtruck him acroſs the forehead.

2. (fencing) A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.
   • 2019 February 19, “Lightsaber duelling registered as official sport in France”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 8 November 2020:

     The country’s fencing federation has officially recognised lightsaber duelling as a competitive sport, granting the weapon from George Lucas’s space saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.

使用する際の注意点

• This spelling has become relatively common in the United States due to the Buffalo Sabres hockey team as well as the occasional tendency to use British spellings for archaic nouns (compare theater versus theatre).

派生語

動詞

sabre (third-person singular simple present sabres, present participle sabring, simple past and past participle sabred) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. (transitive) To strike or kill with a sabre.
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in Past and Present:

     There lie poor sallow workworn weavers, and complain no more now; women themselves are slashed and sabred, howling terror fills the air; […]

2. (transitive) To open (a bottle) via sabrage.

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