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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.

• (river in Africa): Sabi

• AEVs, Esav, VASE, VESA, Veas, aves, vaes, vase

From Latin Savus.

• IPA^(key): /sav/

Save f

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

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)

der Save m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Saves)

1. Save (a river in Zimbabwe and Mozambique)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σαύη (Saúē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.u̯eː/, [ˈs̠äu̯eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ve/, [ˈsäːve]

Savē f sg (genitive Savēs); first declension

1. An inland city of Arabia, in the country of the Maphoritae

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

• Save in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.