verb/e.paʁ.ɲe/
to save (time, money etc.); to save, spare (someone from something)
“il faut épargner sur la nourriture” — you have to save on food
Inherited from Old French espargnier, from Vulgar Latin sparāniāre (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), from Frankish *sparanjan, from Proto-West Germanic *sparēn (compare English spare).