Save

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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

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Latin Savus.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Save f

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

German

Etymology 1

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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

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

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.