A lot of people have asked me about my name. Here is where it came from and what it means.
pronounced tsabar; ṣabra
The word "sabra" is
Arabic and Hebrew. Immigrants to the
British Mandate for Palestine began using it in the early 1930s, according to the
The Dictionary of Slang (Hebrew) written by Israeli Rubik Rozental. The allusion is to a tenacious, thorny desert plant with a thick hide that conceals a sweet, softer interior, suggesting that even though the Israeli Sabra are rough and
masculine on the outside, they are delicate and sensitive on the inside. In the United States, this cactus variety is known as the
Prickly Pear.
If fits me perfect!
The name Sabra
