Savvy

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

1785, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”; West Indies pidgin borrowing of, or , all from , from  (see ). The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun.

Adjective

 * 1)  Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
 * 2) * 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games
 * That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 精明能幹的, 精明能干的
 * Czech: vnímavý, důvtipný, 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

 * Czech:, dovtípit se
 * French:
 * German:, ,


 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Turkish:, ,

Noun

 * 1)  Shrewdness.

Etymology
From, , , from.