Etymology

sabre

sa·bre
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Today it means: A light sword with a curved blade, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point. Full definition →

French sabre ← German Säbel ← Polish szabla
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The story

  1. Hungarian · derived fromszablya
  2. Polish · derived fromszabla
  3. German · derived fromSäbel
  4. French · borrowed fromsabre
  5. English todaysabre

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.

Words from the same roots

Polishszabla all →

shable

Hungarianszablya all →

shable

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.