sabora

American  

[suh-bawr-uh, -bohr-uh] / səˈbɔr ə, -ˈboʊr ə /

noun

(often initial capital letter)

saboraim plural

1. one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in the rabbinical academies of Babylonia during the 6th century a.d., whose editing of the work of the Babylonian amoraim constituted the final stage in the preparation of the Babylonian Gemara.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• saboraim
  plural

Etymology

Origin of sabora

< Aramaic sābhōrā scholar, thinker, derivative of səbhār to think