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Alternative form of sapa.

saba (uncountable)

1. (cooking) A sweet grape syrup made from grape must
   • 2007 January 3, Florence Fabricant, “In Rustic Greek Dishes, a Fresh Approach to Ancient Flavors”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Gar, a long, skinny fish, was cooked and served in thick grape syrup, like saba, the Italian grape must.

Borrowed from Tagalog saba.

saba (uncountable)

1. A triploid hybrid banana cultivar from the Philippines (Musa acuminata × Musa balbisiana).

Borrowed from Japanese 鯖.

saba (uncountable)

1. (cooking) Mackerel.

• AABs, BSAA, Basa, Saab, abas, baas, basa, à bas

Latin sapa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaba/
• Syllabification: sa‧ba
• Rhymes: -aba

saba f

1. (botany) sap

• sapia

Latin sapa.

IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [ˈsa.βə]

• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsa.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsa.ba]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ˈsa.βa]

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saba f (plural sabes)

1. (botany) sap

• sab-a

• Hyphenation: sa‧ba

saba

1. a saba banana

From -sa- (“negative infix”) +‎ -ba (“to steal”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɓa/

-saba (infinitive kusába)

1. Negative form of -ba
   1. to not steal

From Arabic صَبَاح (ṣabāḥ)

saba (accusative sabanı, plural sabalar)

1. morning

• “saba”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

From Proto-Finnic *sapa, from Proto-Baltic *stabara-, compare Lithuanian stabaras (“dried branch”) and Latvian stebere (“cow's tail”). Cognate to Finnish saparo, Ingrian sapara (“pig's tail”), and Karelian sapero, saparo (“tail”).

saba (genitive saba, partitive saba)

1. tail

Declension of saba (ÕS type 17u/sõna, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		saba	sabad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	saba
genitive			sabade
partitive		saba	sabu sabasid
illative		sappa sabasse	sabadesse sabusse
inessive		sabas	sabades sabus
elative		sabast	sabadest sabust
allative		sabale	sabadele sabule
adessive		sabal	sabadel sabul
ablative		sabalt	sabadelt sabult
translative		sabaks	sabadeks sabuks
terminative		sabani	sabadeni
essive		sabana	sabadena
abessive		sabata	sabadeta
comitative		sabaga	sabadega

• siidisaba

From Old Galician-Portuguese savãa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sabana, from sabanum, from Ancient Greek σάβανον (sábanon). Cognate with Spanish sábana.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaβa̝/

saba f (plural sabas)

1. sheet, bedsheet

   Synonyms: lenzo, lenzó

   • 1395, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 157:

     It. mando ao moesteyro de san francisco hua cama de Roupa que seia huun almadraque et tres cabeçaes anchos et huun traueyseyro de pluma laurado et quatro faceyroas et duas sauaas et hua colcha et huun panal et huun alfamare et duas almadraquias

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2. cambium

• sabela
• sabelo

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “savãa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “saba”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “saba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “saba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “saba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /saˈba/ [sɐˈba]
• Hyphenation: sa‧ba

sabá

1. banana

From Sundanese ᮞᮘ (saba), from Javanese ꦱꦧ (saba), from Old Javanese sabhā, from Sanskrit सभा (sabhā, “meeting”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsaba]
• Hyphenation: sa‧ba

saba

1. to go outside the home

• “saba”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

saba

1. Rōmaji transcription of さば
2. Rōmaji transcription of サバ

saba

1. romanization of ꦱꦧ

• IPA^(key): /saˈba/ [sʌˈba]
• (parts of Bauko, Sabangan and Tadian) IPA^(key): /haˈba/ [hʌˈba]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: sa‧ba

sabá

1. banana

saba

1. three

saba

1. seven

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin sapa (“thickened wine”). Cognate with Catalan saba, French sève.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaβo/

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saba f (plural sabas)

1. (botany) sap

• sabar

-sába

1. to fear
2. to be afraid of

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Latin sapa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaba/

saba f (uncountable)

1. (wine) cooked, condensed must

• binu

-sába

1. to fear

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Swahili numbers ⁽⁾

	70
←  6	7	8  →
Cardinal: saba     Ordinal: -a saba     Fractional: subui

Borrowed from Arabic سَبْعَة (sabʕa).^[1] Displaced native fungate.

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saba (invariable)

1. seven

saba class IX (plural saba class X)

1. (card games) seven

Playing cards in Swahili · karata za kucheza (layout · text)
ree, rea, rei	mbili	tatu	nne	tano	sita	saba
nane	tisa	kumi	ghulamu, mzungu wa tatu	malkia, mzungu wa pili, bibi	mfalme, mzungu wa nne, basha	jokari

• Johansen, Aimee (2003), “Why Kiswahili adopted the words for six, seven and nine”, in Studies in African Linguistics‎^[2], volume 32, number 2, pages 99-104

From Proto-Philippine *sabqa (“banana”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sabəqa (“cooking banana”). Compare Ilocano saba, Pangasinan seba, Kapampangan saba, Hanunoo sab-a, Central Bikol sa-ba, and Cebuano sab-a.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈba/ [sɐˈba]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: sa‧ba

sabá (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜊ)

1. saba banana (a Philippine cultivar of banana)

   Synonyms: obispo, (obsolete) bisko

   May binebentang saba si Aling Conching.

   Miss Conching sells some saba bananas.

• “saba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*sabeqa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• basa, saab, Basa

From Hausa sābā̀ (“to be accustomed to doing something”)

• IPA^(key): /sá.bà/

sábà

1. usually, often

   Synonym: lọ́pọ̀ ìgbà

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-saba

1. (intransitive) to stand scattered around while feeding

Clipping of -esaba.

-sába

1. alternative form of -esaba

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “saɓa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “saɓa (6.3)”
• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “saɓa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “saɓa (3.9)”