savate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French savate.

Noun

savate (uncountable)

1. a form of French martial art that involves combinations of punching and kicking moves

Anagrams

• Avesta

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French

Etymology

Middle French savate (“old shoe”), from Old French chavate, çavate, of unknown origin. Possibly from Turkish zabata or Tatar čabata (“overshoes”), ultimately either from Turkish çapıt, çaput (“patchwork, tatters”), from Old Turkic čapmaq (“to slap on”), or of Iranian origin, from Khwarezmian čābātān (“thick boots”), cognate with modern Persian چپت.

Doublet of sabot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.vat/

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Noun

savate f (plural savates)

1. savate
2. (colloquial) old slipper

Further reading

• “savate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

References

• “savate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “savate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) sāvāte

1. vocative masculine singular of sāvātus