salvar
Spanish, verb/salˈbaɾ/
salvar is spelled S-A-L-V-A-R (6 letters) and appears 33 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,555th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salvar is a Spanish verb meaning “to save” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Librar de un peligro o situación riesgosa a alguien o algo”.
What does salvar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to save
- 2
to rescue
- 3
to salvage
- 4
to cover (a distance)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Librar de un peligro o situación riesgosa a alguien o algo. 2. Esquivar, burlar o superar dificultades, contratiempos o inconvenientes. 3. Superar un obstáculo. 4. En la religión católica y otras religiones monoteístas afines, dar la salvación religiosa, la gloria eterna, al alma.
verb: 1. Dar una salva de artillería.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of salvar
- salvo first-person present singular
- salvé first-person preterite singular
- salvado participle past
- salvando gerund
- salvada feminine participle past
- salvados masculine participle past
- salvadas feminine participle past
- salvas indicative informal present
- salvás indicative informal present
- salva indicative present singular
- salvamos first-person indicative plural
- salváis indicative plural present
- salvan indicative plural present
- salvaba first-person imperfect indicative
- salvabas imperfect indicative second-person
- salvábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- salvabais imperfect indicative plural
- salvaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce salvar?
- /salˈbaɾ/
- [salˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to salvar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is salvar in Spanish?
salvar appears 33 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).