Σάββας

From Aramaic סָבָא (sāḇā, “old man, grandfather”).

Σάββᾱς • (Sábbās) m (genitive Σάββου); first declension

1. a male given name from Aramaic
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alexander the Great 64

• Greek: Σάββας (Sávvas)
• → Old Church Slavonic: Сава (Sava)
• → Russian: Са́вва (Sávva)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Sȃva
• → Ukrainian: Са́ва (Sáva)

• Σάββας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Σάββας, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

From Koine Greek Σάββας (Sábbas), from Aramaic סָבָא (sāḇā, “old man, grandfather”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsavas/
• Hyphenation: Σάβ‧βας

Σάββας • (Sávvas) m

1. a male given name from Aramaic
2. A saint whose feast day in the Greek Orthodox tradition is 5 December.