Sava
English
editEtymology
editFrom Serbo-Croatian Sava.
Proper noun
editSava
Translations
editriver
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Anagrams
editDanish
editProper noun
editSava
- Sava (river)
Italian
editEtymology
editProper noun
editSava f
Portuguese
editProper noun
editSava m
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Church Slavonic Сава (Sava), from Ancient Greek Σάββας (Sábbas).
Proper noun
editSava f
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology 1
editOf 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”.[1] The name in Greek was Σάος (Sáos).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editSáva f (Cyrillic spelling Са́ва)
- Sava (river)
Declension
editDeclension of Sava
References
edit- ^ Udolph, Jürgen (28 March 2007). "Stara Europa u Hrvatskoj: ime rijeke Save". Folia Onomastica Croatica (12/13)
Etymology 2
editFrom 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
editProper noun
editSȃva f (Cyrillic spelling Са̑ва)
- Saint Sava, first archbishop of the Serbian autocephalous church
- a male given name (primarily used by people with an Orthodox Christian background)
Declension
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- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Rivers
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Rivers in Europe
- Romanian terms borrowed from Old Church Slavonic
- Romanian terms derived from Old Church Slavonic
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- Romanian proper nouns
- Romanian feminine nouns
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- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian proper nouns
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- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Aramaic
- Serbo-Croatian given names
- Serbo-Croatian male given names