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NMSAA.

It looks and sounds nice enough, but it's the term used to define old-stock Israelis, so for me it mainly conveys images of burly pioneer-type guys. Moreover, it means "prickly pear" in Hebrew, that's where it comes from, actually.

I like it better SAH-bruh. Less like a saber. It's not my style really, but I don't mind it.

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Although it does remind me of the winner of the last So You Think You Can Dance.

Weapon in a video game I LOVE. Ew.

This message was edited 4/25/2008, 9:08 PM

I really like Sabra, but I've never known one.
I'd love to meet one, though :)

Sabra was the name of last season's winner of So You Think You Can Dance, so that's the first thing I think of when I see the name. It's not horrible, but I wouldn't use it myself.

There was a Sabra that I went to high school with. I always thought it was a pretty name.

I always assumed this was pronounced SAB-ruh, the first syllable to rhyme with stab. I think there used to be a TV presenter over here with the name. It's quite pretty but not really my style.

I know one too, and I really dislike the sound. I don't think there has ever been a time when someone hasn't called her saber / sabre.

I heard it the first time in the Andy Irvine song "Time Will Cure Me," but pronounced with the first A to sound like that in apple. So I think of cacti and native-born Israeli Jews, really. It's such a specific association that I wouldn't think of it as a given name right off the bat.

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I'd rather go with the similar Sabrina or above that, to deviate a bit further, with Sabine or Sabina.

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http://www.chinatogalway.com/song%20words%20time%20will%20cure.htm

Like a Saber?

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NMSAA.

I've known one, too. She was a mischievous little blonde girl whom I grew up with. We used to call her Sabra tooth tiger. I like the name primarily because of her, but I also like the combination of letters, as well. I find it quite lovely.