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English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

val (countable and uncountable, plural vals)

1. (informal) Valium.

Anagrams

• AVL, LAV, Vla., lav

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vallen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal/

Verb

val (present val, present participle vallende, past participle geval)

1. to fall

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?val/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bal/
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

val m (plural vals)

1. voucher

Interjection

val

1. okay

Verb

val

1. third-person singular present indicative form of valer
2. second-person singular imperative form of valer

Further reading

• “val” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “val” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “val” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

From Middle High German wal, from Latin vallum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /val/
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

val m

1. bulwark, rampart

Declension

Further reading

• val in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• val in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse valr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?l/, [??æ?l]
• Homophone: hval

Noun

val c (singular definite valen, not used in plural form)

1. (poetic) battlefield

References

• “val” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “Val,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German wal or Dutch wal (“coast, shore”), from Latin vallum. Doublet of vold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?val?/, [??al?]
• Homophone: valg

Noun

val c (singular definite vallen, not used in plural form)

1. (obsolete) steep coastline
   • 1779, Johannes Ewald, Romance (from the play Fiskerne), now royal anthem of Denmark / https://kalliope.org/da/text/ewlad1999022205:

     Fra Vallen hørtes Vraal, som brød | Den tykke Skye.

     From the coast a cry was heard that broke the thick cloud.

References

• “Val,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 3

From Old Norse v?llr, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), cognate with German Wald. Doublet of vold. Alternatively, the same word as the noun above.

Noun

val c (singular definite vallen, not used in plural form)

1. (obsolete) plain
   • 1812, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Til Danerkongen Frederik hin Sjette (in: Poetiske Skrifter, vol. 3, p. 2):

     Paa faste Val og paa den grønne Strand, | At ofre villig baade Liv og Blod.

     On the firm plain and the green beach to sacrifice both life and blood.

References

• “Val,3” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?l/
• Hyphenation: val
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From the verb vallen (“to fall”).

Noun

val m (plural vallen, diminutive valletje n)

1. A fall (act or event of falling).
2. A downfall, demise.

   Synonym: ondergang

3. (in compounds) A case
4. (in compounds) The falling of the night, nightfall.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch valle.

Noun

val f (plural vallen, diminutive valletje n)

1. A physical trap, snare.
2. Any trap, ploy.

Derived terms

• berenval
• geurval
• muizenval

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

val

1. first-person singular present indicative of vallen
2. imperative of vallen

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Probably of the same origin as walvis (“whale”), being the largest land fish.

Noun

val m (plural vallen, diminutive valletje n)

1. (obsolete) A catfish.

   Synonym: meerval

2. Any of its relatives in the family Siluridae.

Derived terms

• meerval
• pantserval
• sidderval
• slangval
• vinval

Etymology 5

From Sanskrit ????? (valle), called after the resilient seeds of Abrus precatorius. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

val m (plural vals, diminutive valletje n)

1. (obsolete) An East Indian weight for silver and gold.(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Anagrams

• vla

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse val (“choice”), from the verb velja (“to choose”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?a?l

Noun

val n (genitive singular vals, plural val)

1. choice
2. (politics) election
3. quality

Declension

French

Etymology

From Old French val, from Latin vallis, vallem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /val/

Noun

val m (plural vaux)

1. (literary) valley, vale

Derived terms

• par monts et par vaux
• vallée
• vallon

See also

• VAL

Further reading

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

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem.

Noun

val f (plural valis)

1. valley

Synonyms

• valdade

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese vale, from Latin vallis, vallem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bal/

Noun

val m (plural vales)

1. valley
   • c1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 122:

     Et ao ferir, braadarõ et deron tan grãdes vozes que os vales rretenyam.

     As they clashed, they shouted and cried so aloud that the valleys resounded.

Derived terms

References

• “vale” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “vale” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “val” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “val” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “val” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse val (“choice”), from the verb velja (“to choose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Noun

val n

1. choice
2. selection

Declension

Derived terms

• náttúruval
• kynbundið val

Italian

Noun

val f (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of valle

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) va'l

Etymology

Related to Finnish valo.

Noun

val

1. light

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German val

Noun

val m

1. fall
2. (grammar) case
   • 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln, Der meide krancz (Codex Palatinus germanicus (Cod. Pal. germ.) 14)

     Wÿ man dy namen brechen ?ol

     Nach iren vellen hin czu cal

     [the following verses contain a declension of Petrus (genitive Petri, dative Petro, accusative Petrum, vocative Petre and ablative Petro)]

     How one shall inflect/decline (literally break) the nouns

     After their cases over to number

Descendants

• German: Fall

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vaðill (“ford, shallow water”).

Noun

val m (definite singular valen, indefinite plural valer, definite plural valene)

1. inlet, shallow bay

Etymology 2

From Old Norse valr (“the fallen”).

Noun

val m (definite singular valen, indefinite plural valer, definite plural valene)

1. (poetic) battlefield

Etymology 3

From Old Norse val.

Noun

val n

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1959; superseded by valg

References

• “val” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse val.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l/

Noun

val n (definite singular valet, indefinite plural val, definite plural vala)

1. choice

   Du har ikkje noko val.

   You don't have a choice.

2. election

   Kven skal du røysta på til valet?

   Who are you going to vote for in the election?

Synonyms

• (election) røysting

Derived terms

• utval
• valkamp

See also

• valg (Bokmål)

References

• “val” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• vath (Gascon)
• vau (Provençal)

Etymology

From Latin vallis.

Noun

val f (plural vals)

1. valley

Old French

Alternative forms

• vaul

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem.

Noun

val m (oblique plural vaus or vax or vals, nominative singular vaus or vax or vals, nominative plural val)

1. valley

Descendants

• ? English: vale
• French: val

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fall, from Proto-Germanic *fallaz.

Noun

val m

1. fall

Descendants

• Middle High German: val
  • German: Fall

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /val/

Noun

val f (plural vaj)

1. valley

Portuguese

Verb

val

1. (Portugal) third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of valer

Noun

val m (plural vales)

1. Apocopic form of vale: valley

   Synonym: vale

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *val?, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, roll”). Compare Serbo-Croatian val; close to Albanian valë.

Noun

val n (plural valuri)

1. wave

Synonyms

• und?

Derived terms

• înv?lura
• înv?lui
• v?l?ri

Related terms

• n?v?li
• pr?v?li
• valm?

Etymology 2

From Latin vallum (“wall, rampart”), probably a later borrowing; cf. German Wall, Italian vallo, also English wall

Noun

val n (plural valuri)

1. earth rampart which served in antiquity as a military stronghold

See also

• v?l

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem.

Noun

val f (plural vals)

1. valley

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *val?, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(H)- (“to turn, roll”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?â?l/

Noun

v?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional, Croatia) wave (a long body of water curling into an arched form)

Declension

Synonyms

• t?l?s

Slovak

Etymology

From Middle High German wal, from Latin vallum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [val]

Noun

val m

1. bulwark, rampart

Declension

Further reading

• val in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *val?, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(H)- (“to turn, roll”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?á?l/

Noun

v?l m inan

1. wave, undulation

Inflection

Derived terms

• valováti
• valovéti
• valovíti
• valôven

Further reading

• “val”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bal/, [?bal]

Noun

val m (plural valles)

1. Apocopic form of valle valley

Derived terms

• Valparaíso

Verb

val

1. Apocopic form of vale: is worth

Usage notes

In Old Spanish, after the consonants /d/, /n/, /l/, /ll/, /r/, and /z/, a final /-e/ was frequently elided, as in pid, vien, val, quier, faz, versus the modern forms of pide, viene, vale, quiere, and hace (in modern Spanish, a few apocopes following coronal consonants are still preserved: buen, gran, san, derived from bueno, grande, and santo).

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish hval, from Old Norse hvalr, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?álos (“sheatfish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??l/

Noun

val c

1. whale

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Norse val, related to välja, vilja (English will)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??l/

Noun

val n

1. an election
2. a choice

Declension

Etymology 3

From Old Norse valr (“the slain, the fallen”), from Proto-Germanic *walaz (“corpse, body; carnage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??l/

Noun

val ?

1. the fallen; casualties of a war or battle

References

Anagrams

• alv, lav

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /val/
• Hyphenation: vàl

Noun

val f (plural val)

1. valley

Synonyms

• va?e

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse val, related to the verb velja (“to choose”).

Noun

val

1. Choice, election.

Related terms

• väli
• vili

Verb

val (preterite vart, supine vorte)

1. Alternative spelling of wahl

Noun

val

1. Alternative form of gval (etymology 1 & 2)

Cebuano

Pronunciation 1

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?bal?i/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ba?li

Noun

bali

1. A cash advance.

Pronunciation 2

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ba?l?i/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ba?li

Noun

bali

1. The opposite, the reverse.

Verb

bali

1. To invert, to reverse.

Adjective

bali

1. Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order or direction; characterized by inversion; turned upside down; reversed; opposite; contrary.

Pronunciation 3

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?bal?i?/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ba?li

Verb

bali

1. To break off, to remove.
2. To fracture.

Pronunciation 4

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /bal?i?/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ba?li

Noun

bali

1. A break, a breakage, a fracture.

Adjective

bali

1. broken, fractured

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?li/, [?b?li]
• Rhymes: -?li
• Syllabification: ba?li

Noun

bali

1. The Balinese language.

Declension

Synonyms

• balin kieli

Related terms

• Bali
• balilainen

Hiligaynon

Adjective

balî

1. broken

Verb

bálì

1. break

Hungarian

Etymology

Bali +? -i (adjective-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?li]
• Hyphenation: ba?li
• Rhymes: -li

Adjective

bali (not comparable)

1. Balinese (of or relating to Bali, its inhabitants, or their language or culture)

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?l?/

  Rhymes: -a?l?

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bali (“grassy bank”), which, according to Pokorny, is from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to blow up, swell”); see also Proto-Germanic *balluz, Albanian bole.

Noun

bali m (genitive singular bala, nominative plural balar)

1. a grassy bank

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Danish balje, balle, from Middle Low German ballie, balge, from French baille.

Noun

bali m (genitive singular bala, nominative plural balar)

1. a (small) tub

Declension

References

Kavalan

Noun

bali

1. wind

Limos Kalinga

Noun

bali

1. typhoon

Maranao

Noun

bali

1. price
2. worth

Derived terms

• balibali

Masbatenyo

Adjective

balì

1. broken; fractured

Middle English

Alternative forms

• beali

Etymology

Possibly from bale.

Noun

bali (plural balis)

1. (rare, Early Middle English) The evil one.

Descendants

• >? Yola: baalee

References

• “?b?l?, adj. as n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

bali m

1. religious offering
2. revenue
3. tax

Declension

Adjective

bali

1. inflection of balin (“strong”):
   1. nominative singular neuter
   2. vocative singular masculine/neuter

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba.l?i/

Verb

bali

1. third-person plural virile past of ba?

Sakizaya

Noun

bali

1. air
2. wind

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic ???? (bal).

Pronunciation

Adverb

bali

1. however, on the contrary

Conjunction

bali

1. but instead

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba.li?/

Noun

bali

1. fracture

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.?li?/

Adjective

bali

1. fractured
2. broken (pencil, stick)

Derived terms