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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

Adverb

eva (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of ever.

Anagrams

• 'ave, AEV, Ave., EAV, Vea, ave, ave., vae

Cornish

Verb

eva

1. to drink

Dutch

Etymology

From Eva (“Eve”), referring to the fig leaves the postlapsarian Eve wore to cover her vulva in the Biblical story.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.va?/
• Hyphenation: eva

Noun

eva f (plural eva's, diminutive evaatje n)

1. (archaic) A half-apron.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Eva (“Eve”), of the biblical creation story. The name comes from Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek ??? (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew ??????? (?aww?).

Pronunciation

• Homophone: æva (example of pronunciation)

Noun

eva f (definite singular evaa, indefinite plural evaer, definite plural evaene)

1. a woman, particularly with very womanly traits

Etymology 2

From Old Norse efa, ifa.

Alternative forms

• eve (e-infinitive)

Pronunciation

• Homophone: æva (example of pronunciation)

Verb

eva (present tense evar, past tense eva, past participle eva, passive infinitive evast, present participle evande, imperative ev)

1. (reflexive) to doubt, drag one's feet

Usage notes

• This is a split infinitive verb.

Etymology 3

Related to eva (Etymology 2) and ev.

Noun

eva f (definite singular eva, indefinite plural ever or evor, definite plural evene or evone)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by eve
2. definite singular of eve

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative forms

• evi (non-standard since 2012)

Noun

eva n

1. definite plural of ev

References

Anagrams

• ave, Eva, vea

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin aqua. Compare French eau, Romansch ava, ova.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??va/

Noun

eva f

1. water