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valva
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin valva. Doublet of valve.
Noun
valva (plural valvae)
- A paired copulatory organ of males in some species of insects that helps the male clasp the female.
Italian
Noun
valva f (plural valve)
- (anatomy, zoology) valve, half shell
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, round”). Cognate with Latin volv? (“I roll”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?u?al.u?a/, [?u?ä??u?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?val.va/, [?v?lv?]
Noun
valva f (genitive valvae); first declension
- double or folding door (in plural)
- one leaf of such doors
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- ? English: valva
- ? Middle English: valve
- English: valve
- ? Japanese: ??? (barubu)
- ? Thai: ????? (waao)
- English: valve
References
- valva in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- valva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- valva in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Portuguese
Noun
valva f (plural valvas)
- (anatomy) valve (membrane which permits passage in one direction)
- Synonym: válvula
Related terms
- válvula
Spanish
Noun
valva f (plural valvas)
- (anatomy) valve
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halva
English
Alternative forms
- halvah, halwa, halwah, halava, halawa
Etymology
From Hebrew ?????? (khalvá), from Romanian halva, from Ottoman Turkish ????? (helva), from Persian ????? (halvâ), from Arabic ???????? (?alw?).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /h??l?v??/, /?h??lv??/
Noun
halva (countable and uncountable, plural halvas)
- A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Translations
References
Further reading
- halva on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dutch
Etymology
From Hebrew ????? (halvá), from Romanian halva, from Ottoman Turkish ????? (helva), from Persian ????? (halvâ), from Arabic ???????? (?alw?).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: hal?va
Noun
halva f or m (plural halva's, diminutive halvaatje n)
- halva
Estonian
Adjective
halva
- genitive singular of halb
Finnish
Noun
halva
- halva
Declension
French
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /al.va/
Noun
halva m (plural halvas)
- halva
Further reading
- “halva” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
hal (“to die”) +? -va (adverbial-participle suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?h?lv?]
- Hyphenation: hal?va
- Rhymes: -v?
Participle
halva
- adverbial participle of hal (“to die”)
Adverb
halva
- dead
Derived terms
- élve vagy halva
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *halpa. Cognates include Finnish halpa (“cheap”) and Estonian halb (“bad”).
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa, Soikkola) IPA(key): /?h?l??/
- Hyphenation: hal?va
Adjective
halva (genitive halvan, partitive halvaa)
- cheap
- bad
Declension
References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 43
- Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?[2], page 99
Italian
Noun
halva f
- halva
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- halven
Noun
halva m or f
- definite feminine singular of halve
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
halva f (definite singular halva, indefinite plural halver or halvor, definite plural halvene or halvone)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by halve
- definite singular of halve
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (helva), from Arabic ???????? (?alw?).
Noun
halva f (plural halvale)
- halva
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (helva) (Turkish helva), from Arabic ???????? (?alw?).
Noun
halva f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- halva
Declension
Synonyms
- tahan halva
Swedish
Noun
halva c
- halva
Noun
halva c
- a half
Declension
Synonyms
- hälft
Related terms
- halv
- halvera
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