The name Sabra

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!

Ha! So Sabra means Cactus Flower...I think you need to change your name - ooppps, now we may be back to Nash's alphabet dilemma. Having had the pleasure of your company on more than one ocassion I didn't find anything about you rough (or masculine) on the outside.

I just assumed Sabra was some Germanic language word for "Sex Kitten"............