To know or understand something; often used in the phrase 'you sabe?' meaning 'do you understand?'
From Spanish saber, meaning 'to know,' which itself comes from Latin sapere. The word entered English through American contact with Spanish speakers in the Southwest.
Sabe is an English word borrowed straight from Spanish that most people recognize without knowing it—it's everywhere in old Westerns where cowboys say 'you sabe?' It represents how American English absorbed vocabulary naturally as cultures mixed in frontier communities.
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