Sava

See also: sava, savá, savā, Sáva, and šava

English

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Sava.

Proper noun

Sava

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

Translations

river

• Amharic: ሳቫ (sava)
• Armenian: Սավա (Sava)
• Belarusian: Сава f (Sava)
• Bulgarian: Сава f (Sava)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Сава f (Sava)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩瓦河／萨瓦河 (Sàwǎ hé)

• Czech: Sáva f
• Danish: Sava
• French: Save (fr) f
• Georgian: სავა (sava)
• German: Save (de) f
• Greek: Σάβος (Sávos), Σάβα (Sáva)
• Hebrew: סאווה
• Hungarian: Száva (hu)
• Japanese: サヴァ (Savu~a)
• Kazakh: Сава (Sava)
• Korean: 사바 강 (saba gang)
• Latin: Savus m
• Macedonian: Сава f (Sava)
• Marathi: साव्हा (sāvhā)
• Mongolian: Сава (Sava)
• Polish: Sawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sava m
• Russian: Са́ва f (Sáva)
• Slovak: Sáva f
• Slovene: Sava (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Sawa f

• Tamil: சாவா (cāvā)
• Ukrainian: Са́ва (uk) f (Sáva)

Anagrams

• AAVs, vasa

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)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Сава (Sava), from Ancient Greek Σάββας (Sábbas).

Proper noun

Sava f

1. A village in Pălatca, Cluj, Romania
2. a surname

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Of pre-Slavic origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press, push (forth); to water”) + *-eh₂, thus meaning something like “that which pushes forth, which waters”. The name in Greek was Σάος (Sáos).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Sáva f (Cyrillic spelling Са́ва)

1. Sava (river)

Declension

Declension of Sava

	singular
nominative	Sáva
genitive	Save
dative	Savi
accusative	Savu
vocative	Savo / Sava
locative	Savi
instrumental	Savom

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek Σάββας (Sábbas), a spiritual name taken on by Prince Rastko Nemanjić (Saint Sava) upon becoming a monk, from Aramaic סבא (“grandfather, old man”).

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

Declension of Sava

	singular
nominative	Sȃva
genitive	Save
dative	Savi
accusative	Savu
vocative	Savo
locative	Savi
instrumental	Savom