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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

From a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ?fen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection. See also the now archaic or poetic even (“evening”), from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?v/
• Rhymes: -i?v
• Homophones: eave, Eve

Noun

eve (plural eves)

1. The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
2. (archaic, poetic) Evening, night.
4. (figuratively) The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced

   Antonyms: evening, winter

Synonyms

• (evening): een, eventide, forenight; see also Thesaurus:evening

Derived terms

• yestereve

Related terms

• evening
• even

Translations

Further reading

• eve at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Anagrams

• EeV, Vee, vee

Aiwoo

Numeral

eve

1. three

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?eve/

Numeral

eve

1. two

Finnish

Noun

eve

1. (slang) ecstasy (drug)

Declension

Synonyms

• ekstaasi

Anagrams

• vee

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

eve (present tense ever, past tense eva or evet, past participle eva or evet)

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

References

• “eve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• Homophone: æve (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse efa, ifa. Confer also with earlier ivast.

Alternative forms

• (verb): eva (a- and split infinitives)
  • (Aasen) æva, ivast
• (noun): (Aasen) Æve

Verb

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

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

Noun

eve m (definite singular even, indefinite plural evar, definite plural evane)

1. doubt, uncertainty

Etymology 2

Related to eva (Etymology 2) and ev.

Alternative forms

• eva (non-standard since 2012)

Noun

eve f (definite singular eva, indefinite plural ever, definite plural evene)

1. trace, rest

References

Old French

Etymology

Latin aqua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.w?/

Noun

eve f (oblique plural eves, nominative singular eve, nominative plural eves)

1. Alternative form of iaue; water

Turkish

Noun

eve

1. singular dative of ev