savvy

Etymology
Alteration of, (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from  or  , or from   from , from.

1785, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”; West Indies pidgin borrowing of, , , or , all from the same Latin source (see also ). The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun. Savvy is phonetically more consistent with savi in Catalan or sabe in Portuguese, than sabe in Spanish or savez in French. Grammatically as well, savi in Catalan is both a noun and an adjective, while sabe and savez are just verb conjugations for “he/she knows” and “you know”, respectively.

Adjective

 * 1)  Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.

Translations

 * Arabic: الدهاء
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 精明能幹的
 * Czech: vnímavý,, řídící se zdravým rozumem,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,  ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: умјешан, информиран
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To understand.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:, dovtípit se
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Turkish:, ,

Noun

 * 1)  Shrewdness.

Etymology
From, , , from.

Verb

 * 1) to know
 * 2) to understand
 * 1) to understand