A quick search and I found this Wikipedia explanation. It also discusses how it was originally meant to be tiger as mentioned earlier in the discussion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabor_(Tarzan)
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Sabor is a generic name for lionesses (originally tigers) in Mangani, the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In Burroughs' works several lionesses appear under the name of Sabor. In the Disney animated movie Tarzan, Sabor is a term for leopards, more specifically the leopard that killed Tarzan's parents.
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