One only vestige of his fate appeared. A large sable feather had been detached from his hat, and the rippling waves of the rising tide wafted it to Caleb's feet.
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Sable
//ˈseɪbəl//
Synonyms for "sable" (180 found)
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3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesdbpedia genus
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2 entriesis a
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23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
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3 entriesTranslations
154 translations across 76 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- سَمُّور noun (animal)
Armenian
2 entries- սամույր noun (animal)
- սամույր noun (fur)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- samur noun (animal)
Bashkir
1 entries- кеш noun (animal)
Belarusian
1 entries- со́баль noun (animal)
Bulgarian
4 entries- черен adj (colour)
- черен adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- самур noun (animal)
- самурова кожа noun (fur)
Buryat
1 entries- булган noun (animal)
Catalan
3 entries- gibelí noun (animal)
- mart gibelí noun (animal)
- marta gibelina noun (animal)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 紫貂 noun (animal)
- 黑貂 noun (animal)
- 黑貂皮 noun (fur)
Chukchi
1 entries- кытгым noun (animal)
Czech
1 entries- sobol noun (animal)
Danish
3 entries- sort adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- sort noun (heraldic colour)
- zobel noun (animal)
Daur
1 entries- baleg noun (animal)
Dolgan
1 entries- киис noun (animal)
Dutch
4 entries- sabel adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- zwart adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- sabel noun (animal)
- sabel noun (heraldic colour)
Esperanto
1 entries- zibelo noun (animal)
Estonian
1 entries- soobel noun (animal)
Even
1 entries- хэгэп noun (animal)
Evenki
1 entries- некэ̄ noun (animal)
Faroese
3 entries- saval noun (fur)
- sibiriskur márur noun (animal)
- sobul noun (animal)
Finnish
4 entries- musta adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- musta noun (heraldic colour)
- soopeli noun (animal)
- soopelinnahka noun (fur)
French
4 entries- sable adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- martre noun (animal)
- sable noun (heraldic colour)
- zibeline noun (animal)
Galician
1 entries- marta cibelina noun (animal)
Georgian
1 entries- სიასამური noun (animal)
German
4 entries- schwarz adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- Schwarz noun (heraldic colour)
- Zobel noun (animal)
- Zobel noun (fur)
Hindi
1 entries- सेबल noun (animal)
Hungarian
4 entries- fekete adj (colour)
- fekete adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- coboly noun (animal)
- cobolyprém noun (fur)
Icelandic
1 entries- safali noun (animal)
Ingrian
1 entries- sooboli noun (animal)
Irish
2 entries- ciardhubh noun (colour)
- sáible noun (animal)
Italian
3 entries- nero adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- nero noun (heraldic colour)
- zibellina noun (animal)
Japanese
3 entries- クロテン noun (animal)
- クロテンの毛皮 noun (fur)
- 黒色 noun (colour)
Kazakh
1 entries- бұлғын noun (animal)
Khakas
1 entries- албыға noun (animal)
Komi-Zyrian
1 entries- низь noun (animal)
Korean
1 entries- 검은담비 noun (animal)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- киш noun (animal)
Latin
1 entries- mus silvestris noun (animal)
Latvian
2 entries- sabulis noun (animal)
- sabuļāda noun (fur)
Lithuanian
1 entries- sabalas noun (animal)
Macedonian
4 entries- црн adj (colour)
- црн adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- са́мур noun (animal)
- црна noun (heraldic colour)
Malay
2 entries- sabel noun (animal)
- samur noun (animal)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠰᡝᡴᡝ noun (animal)
Mangghuer
1 entries- khara noun (animal)
Middle Persian
1 entries- smwl noun (animal)
Mongghul
1 entries- hara noun (animal)
Mongolian
1 entries- булга noun (animal)
Nanai
1 entries- сэпэ noun (animal)
Nogai
1 entries- кис noun (animal)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sobel noun (animal)
Occitan
1 entries- marta noun (animal)
Old Armenian
2 entries- սամոյր noun (animal)
- սամոյր noun (fur)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- سمور noun (animal)
- سمور noun (fur)
Persian
1 entries- سمور noun (animal)
Polish
3 entries- czarny adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- czerń noun (heraldic colour)
- soból noun (animal)
Portuguese
4 entries- sable adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- saibro adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- sable noun (heraldic colour)
- zibelina noun (animal)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਸੇਬਲ noun (animal)
Romanian
4 entries- negru adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- neagră noun (heraldic colour)
- samur noun (animal)
- zibelină noun (animal)
Russian
3 entries- чёрный adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- со́боль noun (animal)
- со́боль noun (fur)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- crna adj (colour)
- crna adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- црна adj (colour)
- црна adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
Shor
1 entries- албыға noun (animal)
Slovak
2 entries- soboľ noun (animal)
- čierna noun (heraldic colour)
Southern Altai
1 entries- киш noun (animal)
Spanish
4 entries- sable adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- cebellina noun (animal)
- marta noun (fur)
- marta cibelina noun (animal)
Swedish
4 entries- svart adj (of black colour on a coat of arms)
- sobel noun (animal)
- sobelpäls noun (fur)
- svart noun (heraldic colour)
Tatar
1 entries- кеш noun (animal)
Thai
1 entries- เซเบิล noun (animal)
Turkish
2 entries- samur noun (animal)
- su samuru noun (animal)
Tuvan
1 entries- киш noun (animal)
Udmurt
1 entries- нӥзь noun (animal)
Ukrainian
1 entries- со́боль noun (animal)
Urdu
1 entries- سیبل noun (animal)
Uyghur
1 entries- بۇلغۇن noun (animal)
Uzbek
2 entries- samur noun (animal)
- sobol noun (animal)
Welsh
2 entries- bele noun (animal)
- sabl noun (animal)
Yakut
1 entries- киис noun (animal)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Aside from giving elephants and lions more room to roam, it could help speed the recovery of the sable and roan antelope, two severely endangered species that have nearly disappeared from Kruger.
Source: tatoeba (10876481)
Lovers dallied upon divans spread with sables.
Source: wiktionary
I ſee its Sables wove by Deſtiny.
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