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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.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?vell?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?l/

Verb

avel (third-person singular simple present avels, present participle avelling, simple past and past participle avelled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pull away.

Anagrams

• Leva, Vale, Veal, Vela, eval, lave, leva, vale, veal, vela

Breton

Etymology

From Old Breton auel, from Proto-Brythonic *awel (“wind”), from Proto-Celtic *awel? (“wind, breeze”) (compare Welsh awel).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v?l/, /???w?l/

Noun

avel f

1. wind

Synonyms

• (literary, archaic) gwent

Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew.

Noun

avel m (Latin spelling)

1. air

Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit ????? (?payati), from the root ??? (?p).

Verb

avel

1. to come