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

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Save

Wikipedia ^de

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Save (Garonne)

Wikipedia ^de

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

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

Declension of Save [sg-only, feminine]

Etymology 2

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Save (Straße von Mosambik)

Wikipedia ^de

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.