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Сава
“grandfather, old man”
Сава (Sȃva) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Ukrainian and Serbo-Croatian.
Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Sava.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Сава is Sava written in Cyrillic. Sava goes back to Aramaic סבא, meaning “grandfather, old man.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Сава developed from Σάββας.
Сава’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Сава has a diminutive in Савко́. In Ukrainian usage, Сава developed from the Ancient Greek form Σάββας. In Ukrainian usage, Сава can be written in the Roman alphabet as Sáva.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Сава
- Sava IIArchbishop of Serbs1200–1271
- Sava GrujićSerbian general, politician, military strategist and Prime Minister (1840-1913)
- Sava PetrovićMetropolitan of Cetinje1700–1781
- Sava KovačevićYugoslav Partisan commander (1905–1943)
- Sava VladislavichRussian diplomat (1669–1738)
- Sava ŠumanovićSerbian painter (1896-1942)
- Sava AntićSerbian footballer (1930–1998)
- Sava-Arangel ČestićSerbian footballerborn 2001
- Sava SedmochislenikBulgarian scholar and saint, 9 c810–880
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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