a word meaning "shrewdness and practical knowledge"
I would bet this is a cognate from the Spanish word, saber, to know...
not pronounced like a sword you rattle, the Spanish pronounciation rhymes with the random phrase "not hair," or "au pair" like the French word for a live-in nanny/housekeeper. Saber is also pronounced with a "v" sound in Spanish not a "b" sound
this verb, saber, is infinitive, so if you wanna say like "ya know" as a phrase of speech, like people often do (y'know?) folks say "sabe?"
That's how you conjugate saber politely, or almost pedantically if it's a friend, otherwise you'd say "¿sabes?" to a friend casually.
And sabe is pronounced almost identically to "savvy" aside from the Latinized or Anglicized a-sound, and it's used exactly like Jack Sparrow uses it, savvy?! 🫠😨😲😵