Note 4 — THE EBONY HORSE.[1]
Richard Francis Burton translation
The orig. Persian word is “Sháh·púr” = King’s son: the Greeks (who had no sh) (preferred Σαβὼρ); the Romans turned it into Sapor and the Arabs (who lack the p) into Sábúr. See p. x. Hamzæ Ispahanensis Annalium Libri x.: Gottwaldt, Lipsiæ mdcccxlviii.