save

Etymology
From, , a borrowing from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To prevent harm or difficulty.
 * 2) To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
 * 3) To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
 * 4) To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
 * 5)  To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
 * 6)  To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
 * 7)  To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
 * 8) To put aside; to avoid.
 * 9)  To store for future use.
 * 10)  To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
 * 11)  To obviate or make unnecessary.
 * 12)  To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
 * 13)   To economize or avoid waste.
 * 14)  To accumulate money or valuables.
 * 15)  To make an agreement to give (some amount of money) to a fellow gambler if one wins, and to receive that amount from them if they win, as a form of hedging.
 * 16)  To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
 * 17)  To avoid saying something.
 * 1)  To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
 * 2)  To obviate or make unnecessary.
 * 3)  To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
 * 4)   To economize or avoid waste.
 * 5)  To accumulate money or valuables.
 * 6)  To make an agreement to give (some amount of money) to a fellow gambler if one wins, and to receive that amount from them if they win, as a form of hedging.
 * 7)  To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
 * 8)  To avoid saying something.
 * 1)  To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
 * 2)   To economize or avoid waste.
 * 3)  To accumulate money or valuables.
 * 4)  To make an agreement to give (some amount of money) to a fellow gambler if one wins, and to receive that amount from them if they win, as a form of hedging.
 * 5)  To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
 * 6)  To avoid saying something.
 * 1)  To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
 * 2)  To avoid saying something.
 * 1)  To avoid saying something.
 * 1)  To avoid saying something.

Usage notes
In computing sense “to write a file”, also used as phrasal verb informally. Compare other computing phrasal verbs such as and.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أَنْقَذَ, أَنْجَى, نَجَّى
 * Egyptian Arabic: أنقذ
 * Hijazi Arabic: أنقذ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: ратава́ць, вы́ратаваць
 * Bulgarian:, спася́
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: luwas
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: päästma
 * Faroese: bjarga
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: salvâ
 * Georgian: გადარჩენა, შველა, ხსნა
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σῴζω
 * Haitian Creole: sove
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: hoitaa
 * Irish: sábháil
 * Istriot: salvà
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Kazakh: құтқару
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ກູ້ໄພ
 * Latgalian: ratavuot, izgluobt
 * Latin: succurro, subvenio, iuvo,, opitulor, auxilior,
 * Latvian: glābt, izglābt
 * Lithuanian: išgelbėti
 * Lombard:
 * Macedonian: спасува, спаси
 * Maore Comorian: uhui
 * Middle English: redden, saven
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: saûver
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: съпасти
 * Old East Slavic: съпасти
 * Old English: hreddan
 * Oromo: hambisuu
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: salvé
 * Polabian: ai̯băroi̯
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: salvar, salver
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: salvai, salvare, sarbai, sarbare, sarvai, sarvare
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: спаша́вати, спаса́вати, спа́сити, спа̑сти
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Slovak: zachraňovať, zachrániť
 * Slovene: reševati, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: kuokoa
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: isalba, tulungan
 * Tajik: наҷот додан
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎍𐎉
 * Ukrainian: рятува́ти, врятува́ти
 * Urdu: بچانا
 * Uyghur: قۇتقۇزماق, قۇتۇلدۇرماق
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: salvar
 * Vietnamese:, cứu nguy,
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yakut: абыраа
 * Yiddish: ראַטעווען, מציל זײַן


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Estonian: päästmine, kaitsmine, turvamine
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: varðveita, ,
 * Ingrian: hoitaa
 * Irish: ainic
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Middle English: saven
 * Quechua: jallch'ay
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Estonian: päästmine, hoidmine, säästmine
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Middle English: saven
 * Romanian:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: spasit
 * Estonian: päästma, patulunastamine
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ხსნა
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: σῴζω
 * Hebrew: הושיע
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: slánaigh
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:
 * Middle English: saven
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kuokoa
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Estonian: tõrjuma, püüdma
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: phá bóng


 * Arabic: اِدَّخَرَ
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ŝpari
 * Estonian: varuma, varundama, hoiustama,, tallele panema
 * Finnish: panna talteen, ,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: შენახვა, გადანახვა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σῴζω
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: sábháil
 * Istriot: salvà
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 保存する, 保管する
 * Khmer: សន្សំទុក
 * Latgalian: laiceit, taupeit, globuot
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: glabāt, taupīt
 * Middle English: saven
 * Mongolian:
 * Neapolitan: sparagnà
 * Norman: êpaîngni
 * Norwegian: spare,
 * Old English: sparian
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Slovene: shraniti
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: భద్రపరచు
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Venetian: salvar
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:, ,


 * Arabic: اِدَّخَرَ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Lithuanian: tausoti
 * Middle English: saven
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ipunin
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: حَفِظَ
 * Hijazi Arabic: حَفَظ
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:, surdiskigi
 * Estonian: talletama, salvestama, jäädvustama, hoiustama, varundama
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:, seiva
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: salvar
 * Irish: sábháil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 保存する
 * Korean:
 * Latin: ,
 * Malay: ​
 * Maori: rokiroki
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:,  ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: спремити, сачувати, снимити, похранити, меморирати / меморисати, сејвати
 * Roman:, , , , / memorisati,
 * Slovene: shraniti
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: భద్రపరచు
 * Thai: ,
 * Tigrinya: ኣቐምጥ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: зберіга́ти, записа́ти
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: spare
 * Esperanto: ŝpari
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 節約する
 * Khmer: សន្សំសំចៃ
 * Korean: ,
 * Ladin: sparanië
 * Norwegian: spare
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: దాచుకొను
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: заоща́джувати, заоща́дити,, зеконо́мити
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: خبّى
 * Asturian: aforrar
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: opspare
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: koguma,, hoiustama
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: leggja til hliðar, leggja fyrir, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: 貯金する
 * Khmer: សន្សំប្រាក់
 * Lithuanian: taupyti
 * Maori: whakaputu
 * Norman: êpaîngni
 * Norwegian: spare
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: దాచుకొను
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: para biriktirmek
 * Ukrainian:, назбира́ти
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon:


 * German: (2),  (3)
 * Indonesian: (1),  (2,3)

Noun

 * 1) An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
 * 2) In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
 * 3)  A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
 * 4)  A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
 * 5)  An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
 * 6)  The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
 * 7)  A saving throw.
 * 1)  A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
 * 2)  An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
 * 3)  The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
 * 4)  A saving throw.
 * 1)  The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
 * 2)  A saving throw.
 * 1)  A saving throw.
 * 1)  A saving throw.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: redning
 * Estonian: tõrje
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: sábháil
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: redning
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Estonian: talletus, lindistus, varundus, salvestus, säilik
 * Finnish: tallennus
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Swedish: sparning

Preposition

 * 1) Except; with the exception of.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:except

Conjunction

 * 1) unless; except
 * 2) * 2009, Nicolas Brooke (translator), French Code of Civil Procedure in English 2008, Article 1 of Book One, quoted after: 2016, Laverne Jacobs and Sasha Baglay, The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes: Global Perspectives, published by Routledge (first published in 2013 by Ashgate Publishing), p. 8:
 * Only the parties may institute proceedings, save where the law shall provide otherwise.

Derived terms

 * a prophet is not without honor save in his own country
 * save vs.
 * save as

Etymology
🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 have been suggested as origins, but Charpentier considers, influenced by its Spanish cognate, more likely. Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to know
 * 2) to be able to
 * mi no save kam : I can't come
 * mi save toktok Francis : I can speak French

Etymology 1
From, from , cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Derived from the noun (🇨🇬).

Verb

 * 1) to

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  save file of a video game or computer game

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to know
 * 2)  to understand
 * 3)  to make a practice or habit of
 * 4)  to learn
 * 1)  to learn

Adverb

 * 1) habitually

Noun

 * 1) knowledge