Sabirn.

1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags III. i. 18 ‘You are great warriors,’ he cried, in the Sabir tongue.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 37 Sabir, a mixture of French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Arabic, which serves as a lingua franca for the Mediterranean ports.

1964 E. Palmer tr. A. Martinet Elements Gen. Linguistics v. 155 These somewhat sketchy tools of communication are often called sabirs after the language which long flourished in the Mediterranean ports and is also known as the lingua franca.

1972 R. Mayne Europeans iv. 58 The multinational institutions of the Common Market are gradually developing a modern administrative sabir compounded from French, German, Italian, and even English.

1974 Florida FL Reporter 13 17/1 I cannot agree that the ‘Sabir Pidgins’..at least are special formations. Rather, they were transmitted by maritime routes—and in some frontier situations.

1978 Language 54 338 It seems clear that temporal priority must be granted to the contact system used with North Africans of the western Mediterranean (‘Sabir’) over that used with Black Africans (the reconnaissance language).

1978 Language 54 338 Eastern Sabir, the pidgin used by pilgrims and merchants in the eastern Mediterranean, was, however, much more destructured than the Western Sabir recorded in the Portuguese documents.