Etymology

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Today it means: A sabre or curved sword. Full definition →

Italian sciabla ← Hungarian szablya ← Polish szabla
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The story

  1. Polish · borrowed fromszabla
  2. Hungarian · borrowed fromszablya
  3. Italian · borrowed fromsciabla
  4. English todayshable

Borrrowed from either Italian sciabla, Hungarian szablya or Polish szabla. Doublet of sabre.

Words from the same roots

Hungarianszablya all →

sabre

Polishszabla all →

sabre

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.