Sable

Noun



 * 1) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Mustela zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
 * 2) The marten, especially Mustela americana.
 * 3) The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
 * 4) * 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando
 * Lovers dallied upon divans spread with sables.
 * 1) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable.


 * : A black colour on a coat of arms.
 * 1) A black colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
 * 2)  Black garments worn in mourning.
 * 1)  Black garments worn in mourning.

Adjective

 * 1) Of the black colour sable.
 * 2) * 2002, Christopher Paolini, Eragon, chapter 3
 * They wound between the wagons to a tent removed from the rest of the traders'. It was crimson at the top and sable at the bottom, with thin triangles of colors stabbing into each other.
 * : In blazon, of the colour black.
 * 1) Made of sable fur.
 * 2) Dark, somber.

Thesaurus
achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, atramentous, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black race, blackness, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coal-black, coaly, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkness, deep black, device, difference, differencing, dusky, eagle, ebon, ebony, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, gloomy, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, ink-black, inkiness, inky, jet, jetty, label, lion, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, melanism, metal, midnight, motto, mullet, murky, night-black, night-dark, nigrescence, nigritude, nigrous, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, purpure, quarter, quartering, raven, raven-black, rose, saltire, scutcheon, shield, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, somber, spread eagle, subordinary, tar-black, tarry, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, yale

Alternative forms

 * sa. or s. in heraldic contexts.

Etymology
C.1275, ; from sable and martre sable:, in reference to the animal or its fur; from  sabel (compare  sabel,  zobel); ultimately from an Old Slavonic or Baltic word (compare  соболь: (sóbol'),  soból:,  sobol:). Compare also samōr.

Noun

 * Arabic: سمور
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hindi: सेबल
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: クロテン


 * Korean:
 * Latin: mus silvestris
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian: سمور
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: zibelina
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: самур, сабољ
 * Roman: samur, sabolj
 * Turkish:, su samuru
 * Urdu: سیبل


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 黑貂皮
 * Finnish: soopelinnahka


 * German: Zobel
 * Japanese: クロテンの毛皮
 * Russian:


 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: czarna


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: neagră
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: црна
 * Roman: crna
 * Slovak: čierna


 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Japanese: 黒色 (kuro iro)
 * Macedonian:


 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: црна
 * Roman: crna

Derived terms

 * sable antelope
 * sablefish

Related terms

 * zibeline

Adjective

 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Japanese: 黒色の (kuro iro no)
 * Macedonian:


 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: црна
 * Roman: crna


 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: црна
 * Roman: crna
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * ables, bales, Basel, Basle, Blase, blase, blasé

Noun

 * 1) sabre, saber

Alternative forms

 * sabre

Noun

 * 1) sand

Derived terms

 * bac à sable
 * sable mouvant
 * sable mouvant

Noun

 * 1) The heraldic colour sable; black.

Etymology 1
From sablo:, a form of sabulo:.

Etymology 2
From martre sable "sable marten", an animal. Possibly from an Old Slavonic word; compare with Russian соболь.

Etymology 3
From

Anagrams

 * bêlas, blasé

Noun

 * 1) saber, cutlass

Derived terms

 * diente de sable