Saba

See also: saba, sabá, saba', and säbä

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صبا (ṣabā).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseɪ.bə/

Proper noun

Saba

  1. An island and special municipality in the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea; in the southern part of the Caribbean off the west coast of Venezuela.

Derived terms

Translations

Proper noun

Saba

  1. Sheba: an ancient civilization in South Arabia (now Yemen), and crossing the Red Sea into the Horn of Africa.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Proper noun

Saba

  1. An East Chadic language spoken in Chad.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Saba terms

Proper noun

Saba (plural Sabas)

  1. A surname from Arabic.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Saba is the 8822th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3712 individuals. Saba is most common among White (76.32%) and Hispanic/Latino (9.54%) individuals.

Further reading

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Possibly derived from a shortening or misreading of Spanish San Cristóbal, the original name of the island.

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Sa‧ba

Proper noun

Saba n

  1. An island and special municipality in the Netherlands in the Caribbean Sea.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.ba/
  • Rhymes: -aba
  • Hyphenation: Sà‧ba

Etymology 1

From Latin Saba, from Ancient Greek Σάβα (Sába), from Hebrew שְׁבָא (Šəḇā).

Proper noun

Saba f

  1. (biblical) Sheba

Proper noun

Saba m

  1. A male given name of historical usage, equivalent to English Sheba

Proper noun

Saba m

  1. Saba, an island in the Caribbean Netherlands

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σάβα (Sába), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁבָא (Šəḇā).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Saba f sg (variously declined, genitive Saba or Sabae); indeclinable, first declension

  1. (biblical) Sheba

Declension

Indeclinable noun or first-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Saba
Genitive Saba
Sabae
Dative Saba
Sabae
Accusative Saba
Sabam
Ablative Saba
Sabā
Vocative Saba

Descendants

  • Italian: Saba

References

  • Saba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Saba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Saba”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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