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noun a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle
noun a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back
verb cut or injure with a saber
originBorrowed from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya. Cognate with Danish sabel, Russian са́бля (sáblja), Serbo-Croatian сабља, Sicilian sciàbbula.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0