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ava

Translingual

Symbol

ava

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Avar.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɑː.və/
• Rhymes: -ɑːvə

Noun

ava (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of kava.

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

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa, from Proto-Tupian *apʷũ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aˈʋa/

• (Paraguayan Guarani, Eatern Guarani) IPA^(key): [aˈʋa], [aˈva];
• (Southwestern Guarani) IPA^(key): [aˈʋa].

Noun

ava (plural avakuéra, locative avápe, semblative aváicha)

1. a man, human, person
2. people
3. (strictly) the Guarani people or all Indigenous people in general

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ava.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: à‧va

Noun

ava f (plural ave)

1. female equivalent of avo (“ancestor”)

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish faba, from Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).

Noun

ava f

1. bean

   Synonym: fijon (Balkan)

Latin

Etymology

Feminine counterpart to avus (“grandfather”) formed with *-éh₂, compare Gothic 𐌰𐍅𐍉 (awō, “grandmother”), although conceivably a secondary formation. Compare avia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.va]

Noun

ava f (genitive avae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. grandmother
2. old wives' tale

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Friulian: ave
• Italian: ava
• Sardinian: aba

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ava in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Lombard

Pronunciation

• (Milanese) IPA^(key): /ˈa.va/

Noun

ava f

1. bee

Mbyá Guaraní

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa.

Noun

ava

1. man

Related terms

References

• Robert A. Dooley (2016 August) “ava”, in Léxico guarani, dialeto mbyá: guarani-português (overall work in Portuguese), Anápolis: SIL Brasil, page 22

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *āpāta- (“city, cultivated”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂tew-, derived from the root *peh₂- (“to protect; to shepherd”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈvɑː/

Adjective

ava (comparative avatir, superlative herî ava or tewrî ava, Arabic spelling ئاڤا)

1. built, built up; thriving, flourishing

   Synonym: şên

2. (of the Sun) setting
3. (of mares) pregnant

Derived terms

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “ava”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 17

Portuguese

Interjection

ava

1. (Internet slang) alternative form of ah, vá

Romansch

Alternative forms

• aua (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter)
• ova (Puter)

Etymology

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

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): [əˈvɑː], [əˈvɔː], [əˈvaː]

Adverb

ava (not comparable)

1. at all
2. without stopping
3. of all

Derived terms

• no ava

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaba/ [ˈa.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: a‧va

Noun

ava m or f by sense (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

Teanu

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *kapak (“to flap wings; wing”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kapak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ava/

Noun

ava

1. wing

Verb

ava

1. to fly
2. to travel by plane

References

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry ava.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry ava.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

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

Venetan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin apis.

Noun

ava f (plural ave)

1. bee

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