Sabrin — Name Meaning in Islam

Root: ص-ب-ر (ṣ-b-r), "to bear, to hold fast, to restrain oneself". Ṣābirīn is the sound masculine plural of the active participle ṣābir: those who are steadfast, the patient ones. Taking a plural as a personal name is unusual and is what makes this name distinctive — the bearer is named for a company rather than a quality. The root does not mean waiting; it means holding a position and not letting go.

From the same root: ṣabr (steadfastness), ṣabūr (long-enduring; aṣ-Ṣabūr is counted among the names of God), iṣṭibār, muṣābara (to outlast another in endurance — Al Imran 3:200 pairs the two verbs, be steadfast and outlast), taṣabbur (to make oneself patient, implying it is learned). Al-Baqara 2:153 says God is with the steadfast, using this exact plural form. The names Sabri, Sabir and Sabira are all from here.

Spellings: Sabrin, Sabreen, Sabrine, Sabriye or Sabri (Turkish, related forms), Sabrina here is a different, Latin-derived name; Sabrin (Indonesian), Sabreen (Urdu), Sabrine (French/Maghrebi), صابرين.

Pronunciation: saa-bi-REEN — stress on the final long syllable. The first consonant is ṣād, the emphatic s, which pulls the following vowel back and darkens it.

Masculine counterpart: Sabir, Sabri.