سبله

From Arabic سَبَلَة‎ (sabala, “moustache”); compare Persian سبیل‎ (sebil, “moustache”).

سبله • (sebele) (plural سبال‎)

1. moustache, a growth of facial hair over the upper lip

   Synonyms: بیق‎ (bıyık), شارب‎ (şarib)

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Mystax”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1114
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سبله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2543–2544
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سبله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1036