Save

See also: save, savé, savè, savê, šave, and 'save

English

Proper noun

Save

1. A river in southeastern Africa that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.
   • 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 232:

     “I am from the Save River. But I married. To a man from afar, Phiri, from Malawi.”

2. A river in southern France that flows about 143 km (89 mi) from the Pyrenees to the Garonne at Grenade.

Synonyms

• (river in Africa): Sabi

Translations

river in Africa

• Belarusian: Са́бі m (Sábi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩韋河 / 萨韦河 (Sàwéi hé)

• Chuvash: Саве (Save)
• French: Savé m
• Georgian: სავე (save)
• German: Save (de) m
• Lithuanian: Savė f
• Polish: Sabi m
• Portuguese: Save m
• Russian: Саве m (Save)
• Ukrainian: Саве m (Save)

river in France

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩韋河 / 萨韦河 (Sàwéi hé)

• French: Save (fr) f
• German: Save (de) f
• Occitan: Sava f
• Russian: Сав m (Sav)

Anagrams

• AEVs, Aves, vase, VASE, aves, Veas, vaes, seva, Esav, VAEs, VESA

French

Etymology

From Latin Savus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sav/

Proper noun

Save f

1. Sava (river)
2. Save (a river in France)

German

Etymology 1

Proper noun

die Save f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Save)

1. Sava (a right tributary of the Danube)
2. Save (a river in France)

Declension

Declension of Save [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Save
genitive	einer	der	Save
dative	einer	der	Save
accusative	eine	die	Save

Etymology 2

Proper noun

der Save m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Saves)

1. Save (a river in Zimbabwe and Mozambique)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σαύη (Saúē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.u̯eː/, [ˈs̠äu̯eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ve/, [ˈsäːve]

Proper noun

Savē f sg (genitive Savēs); first declension

1. An inland city of Arabia, in the country of the Maphoritae

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Savē
genitive	Savēs
dative	Savae
accusative	Savēn
ablative	Savē
vocative	Savē
locative	Savae

References

• Save in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.