different between avale vs aval

English

Etymology

From French avaler (“to descend, to let down”)

Verb

avale (third-person singular simple present avales, present participle avaling, simple past and past participle avaled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
2. (transitive, obsolete) To bring low; to abase.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To descend; to fall; to dismount.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto IX,VIII.

     And from their sweaty courses did avale.

Related terms

• avalanche

References

• avale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Estonian

Noun

avale

1. allative singular of ava

French

Verb

avale

1. first-person singular present indicative of avaler
2. third-person singular present indicative of avaler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of avaler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of avaler
5. second-person singular imperative of avaler

Spanish

Verb

avale

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of avalar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of avalar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of avalar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of avalar.

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.