ava

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See also: Ava, AVA, āva, avá, åvå, -ava, and 'ava

Translingual[edit]

Symbol[edit]

ava

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

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ava (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of kava
    • 1859, James Finlay Weir Johnston, The Chemistry of Common Life:
      In the Tonga Islands , the ava root , when dry , is split up into small pieces with an axe or other sharp instrument
    • 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Bottle Imp:
      [] the schooners plying up the coast for wood and ava and bananas.

Anagrams[edit]

Estonian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Derived from avama (to open).

Noun[edit]

ava (genitive ava, partitive ava)

  1. hole, opening

Inflection[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

ava

  1. Second-person singular imperative form of avama.

Guaraní[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ava

  1. man, human
  2. person
  3. people

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin ava.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

ava f (plural ave)

  1. female equivalent of avo (ancestor)

Ladino[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

ava f

  1. bean
    Synonym: fijon (Saloniko)

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

  1. grandmother
  2. old wives' tale

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ava avae
Genitive avae avārum
Dative avae avīs
Accusative avam avās
Ablative avā avīs
Vocative ava avae

Descendants[edit]

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

References[edit]

  • 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

Mbyá Guaraní[edit]

Noun[edit]

ava

  1. man

Northern Kurdish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. built, built up; thriving, flourishing
    Synonym: şên
  2. (of the Sun) setting
  3. (of mares) pregnant

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

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

Portuguese[edit]

Interjection[edit]

ava

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

Romansch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

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

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

ava f

  1. (Surmiran) water

Derived terms[edit]

Samoan[edit]

Noun[edit]

ava

  1. passage through a coral reef for boats

Scots[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [əˈvɑː], [əˈvɔː], [əˈvaː]

Adverb[edit]

ava (not comparable)

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

Derived terms[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

ava m or f by sense (plural ava)

  1. Ava (denomination of Guaraní)

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Short for avannonsera

Verb[edit]

ava (present avar, preterite avade, supine avat, imperative ava)

  1. (radio, slang) to announce a song or radio program at its end

Conjugation[edit]

Antonyms[edit]

Teanu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ava

  1. wing

References[edit]

Tolai[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • avat (when not preceding a verb)

Pronoun[edit]

ava

  1. Second-person plural pronoun: you (many)

Declension[edit]


Turkish[edit]

Noun[edit]

ava

  1. dative singular of av

Venetian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Latin apis.

Noun[edit]

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ava f (plural ave)

  1. bee