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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??.v?/
• Rhymes: -??v?

Noun

ava (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of kava

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   • 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Bottle Imp

     […] the schooners plying up the coast for wood and ava and bananas.

Anagrams

• AAV

Estonian

Etymology

Derived from avama (“to open”).

Noun

ava (genitive ava, partitive ava)

1. hole, opening

Inflection

Derived terms

• avamäng

Related terms

• avatud
• avaus
• avar

Verb

ava

1. Second-person singular imperative form of avama.

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.??a/

Noun

ava

1. man, human
2. person
3. people

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ava.

Noun

ava f (plural ave)

1. female equivalent of avo (“ancestor”)

Latin

Etymology

Cf. avia. From the feminine of avus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.u?a/, [?äu?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.va/, [???v?]

Noun

ava f (genitive avae); first declension

1. grandmother
2. old wives' tale

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Friulian: ave
• Sardinian: aba
• Italian: ava

References

• ava in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ava in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ava in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Interjection

ava

1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of ah, vá

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) aua
• (Puter) ova

Etymology

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?eh?.

Noun

ava f

1. (Surmiran) water

Derived terms

• ava da bever
• ava minerala
• ava dalla spegna

Samoan

Noun

ava

1. passage through a coral reef for boats

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??v??], [??v??], [??va?]

Adverb

ava (not comparable)

1. at all
2. without stopping
3. of all

Derived terms

• no ava

Spanish

Noun

ava m or f (plural ava)

1. Ava (denomination of Guaraní)

Swedish

Etymology

Short for avannonsera

Verb

ava (present avar, preterite avade, supine avat, imperative ava)

1. (radio, slang) to announce a song or radio program at its end

Conjugation

Antonyms

• påa

Tolai

Alternative forms

• avat (when not preceding a verb)

Pronoun

ava

1. Second-person plural pronoun: you (many)

Declension

Turkish

Noun

ava

1. dative singular of av

Venetian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin apis.

Noun

ava f (plural ave)

1. bee

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French aval.

Noun

aval (plural avals)

1. (finance, law) A financial guarantee by a third party to assume the burden of a debt, especially a bill of exchange in the event of default.

Translations

References

• aval, in Investopedia.

Etymology 2

From Latin avus (“grandfather”).

Adjective

aval (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent.
   • 1973, Wilfred T. Neill, Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Columbia University Press (1973), ?ISBN, page 299:

     Sosrodihardjo found it hard to support his children, and the young Sukarno was sent to stay with his grandmother […] Believing that the boy had supernatural powers of healing, she put him to licking the afflicted parts of ailing villagers, and decided that he would be a clairvoyant. But alas for aval ambitions; Sukarno turned out to be a visionary of quite a different sort.

Synonyms

• grandparental

Hyponyms

• (grandfather): grandfatherly, grandpaternal
• (grandmother): grandmaternal, grandmotherly

Anagrams

• Alva, Lava, lava

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *a?al, from Proto-Celtic *abalom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éb?l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.val/

Noun

aval m

1. apple

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *a?al, from Proto-Celtic *abalom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éb?l.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [?aval]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [?æv?l]

Noun

aval m (plural avalow or avallow)

1. apple

Derived terms

Estonian

Noun

aval

1. adessive singular of ava

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.val/

Etymology 1

From à + val.

Noun

aval m (uncountable)

1. downstream area, lower reaches (of river)

Derived terms

• en aval (adjective) (downstream)

Etymology 2

Probably an abbreviation of à valoir.

Noun

aval m (plural avals)

1. approval, endorsement

Descendants

• ? Catalan: aval
• ? English: aval
• ? Galician: aval
• ? Italian: avallo
• ? Portuguese: aval
• ? Spanish: aval

Anagrams

• lava

Further reading

• “aval” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Occitan

Etymology

a +? val

Adverb

aval

1. down

   Antonym: amont

Portuguese

Etymology

From French aval.

Noun

aval m (plural avais)

1. permit (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)

   Synonyms: permissão, autorização, licença

Related terms

• avaliação

Further reading

• “aval” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French aval.

Noun

aval n (uncountable)

1. downstream

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French aval.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?bal/, [a???al]

Noun

aval m (plural avales)

1. endorsement
2. countersignature
3. guarantee

Derived terms

• avalar
• avalista

Further reading

• “aval” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.