سبورة
Arabic
Etymology
From سَبَرَ (sabara) meaning to examine or probe a wound, to clean out a wound, to refresh it or to clean off purulent material, to express uncleanly substances or to attempt to release an illness through bloodletting, to wipe down or wipe off filth, to purify or clear up especially a surface like the skin around a wound; likely an extended semantic development from Aramaic סְבַר (sḇar, “originally to consider, to look over; later to perforate or cut into, to check inside”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sab.buː.ra/
Noun
سَبُّورَة • (sabbūra) f (plural سَبُّورات (sabbūrāt))
- slate; blackboard; whiteboard; any display board whose content can be disposed of, commonly by erasure e.g. flip-charts, electronic and interactive whiteboards ...etc.
Declension
Declension of noun سَبُّورَة (sabbūra)
| Singular | singular triptote in ـَة (-a) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | سَبُّورَة sabbūra | السَّبُّورَة as-sabbūra | سَبُّورَة sabbūrat |
| Nominative | سَبُّورَةٌ sabbūratun | السَّبُّورَةُ as-sabbūratu | سَبُّورَةُ sabbūratu |
| Accusative | سَبُّورَةً sabbūratan | السَّبُّورَةَ as-sabbūrata | سَبُّورَةَ sabbūrata |
| Genitive | سَبُّورَةٍ sabbūratin | السَّبُّورَةِ as-sabbūrati | سَبُّورَةِ sabbūrati |
| Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
| Informal | سَبُّورَتَيْن sabbūratayn | السَّبُّورَتَيْن as-sabbūratayn | سَبُّورَتَيْ sabbūratay |
| Nominative | سَبُّورَتَانِ sabbūratāni | السَّبُّورَتَانِ as-sabbūratāni | سَبُّورَتَا sabbūratā |
| Accusative | سَبُّورَتَيْنِ sabbūratayni | السَّبُّورَتَيْنِ as-sabbūratayni | سَبُّورَتَيْ sabbūratay |
| Genitive | سَبُّورَتَيْنِ sabbūratayni | السَّبُّورَتَيْنِ as-sabbūratayni | سَبُّورَتَيْ sabbūratay |
| Plural | sound feminine plural | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | سَبُّورات sabbūrāt | السَّبُّورات as-sabbūrāt | سَبُّورات sabbūrāt |
| Nominative | سَبُّوراتٌ sabbūrātun | السَّبُّوراتُ as-sabbūrātu | سَبُّوراتُ sabbūrātu |
| Accusative | سَبُّوراتٍ sabbūrātin | السَّبُّوراتِ as-sabbūrāti | سَبُّوراتِ sabbūrāti |
| Genitive | سَبُّوراتٍ sabbūrātin | السَّبُّوراتِ as-sabbūrāti | سَبُّوراتِ sabbūrāti |
Descendants
- Gulf Arabic: صبورة (ṣabūra, “whiteboard, board”)
References
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “سبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN