English

Proper noun

Sava

1. A river in southern Europe, a right side tributary of Danube at Belgrade.

Translations

Danish

Proper noun

Sava

1. Sava (river)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Savus.

Proper noun

Sava f

1. The river Sava

Portuguese

Proper noun

Sava m

1. Sava (a river in southern Europe)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǎːʋa/
• Hyphenation: Sa‧va

Proper noun

Sáva f ‎(Cyrillic spelling Са́ва)

1. Sava (river)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek Σάββας ‎(Sábbas), a spiritual name taken on by Prince Rastko Nemanjić (Saint Sava) upon becoming a monk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sâːʋa/
• Hyphenation: Sa‧va

Proper noun

Sȃva f ‎(Cyrillic spelling Са̑ва)

1. Saint Sava, first archbishop of the Serbian autocephalous church
2. A male given name (primarily used by people with an Orthodox Christian background)

Declension

French

Interjection

sava

1. Informal form of ça va.

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sauðr, from Proto-Germanic *sauþaz.

Noun

sava ‎(plural savat)

1. sheep

Hungarian

Etymology

sav +‎ -a ‎(“possessive suffix”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɒvɒ]
• Hyphenation: sa‧va

Noun

sava

1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of sav

Latvian

Pronoun

sava

1. genitive singular masculine form of savs
2. nominative singular feminine form of savs

Novial

Verb

sava ‎(past savad, active participle savant, passive participle savat)

1. to know

Swedish

Verb

sava ‎(present savar, preterite savade, supine savat, imperative sava)

1. to be in sap (for the juice in plants to rise, to ascend)

   tiden nu är inne, då björken safvar

   the time is right, when the birch is in sap

2. to strip the sap from trees (usually birches)

   ett träd, som vårtiden safvas

   a tree, which in the springtime is stripped of sap

   Har han bläckat och safvat i min vackra fimmelstång. – Fimmelstång? – Ja, den där björken skulle bli en fimmelstång.

   Has he cut and stripped sap in my beautiful thill. – Thill? – Yes, that birch should have become a thill.

Conjugation

Related terms

• sav
• savig