ava

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ava"

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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
   • 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

• AAV

Estonian

Etymology

Derived from avama (“to open”).

Noun

ava (genitive ava, partitive ava)

1. hole, opening

Inflection

Declension of ava (ÕS type 17u/sõna, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		ava	avad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	ava
genitive			avade
partitive		ava	avu avasid
illative		avva avasse	avadesse avusse
inessive		avas	avades avus
elative		avast	avadest avust
allative		avale	avadele avule
adessive		aval	avadel avul
ablative		avalt	avadelt avult
translative		avaks	avadeks avuks
terminative		avani	avadeni
essive		avana	avadena
abessive		avata	avadeta
comitative		avaga	avadega

Derived terms

• avamäng

Related terms

• avatud
• avaus
• avar

Verb

ava

1. Second-person singular imperative form of avama.

Guaraní

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa

Guaraní ava

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

Cognates

Tembé awa, awe, Aurá and Emerillon awa, Apiaká awaŋa, Tupinambá aβa, Anambé awã, Cocama awa, Old Tupi abá, Guarayu and Sirionó aba and Paraguayan Guaraní, Aché, Mbyá Guaraní, and Chiripá ava.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aˈʋa/

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

Noun

ava (plural avakuéra, locative avápe, comitative avaicha)

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.u̯a/, [ˈäu̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.va/, [ˈäːvä]

Noun

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

1. grandmother
2. old wives' tale

Declension

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

• 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

Realted terms

• ava poapê
• ava poxy
• ava'i
• avakue

 

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 avatirîn, Arabic spelling ئاڤا)

1. built, built up; thriving, flourishing

   Synonym: şên

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

Derived terms

• ava bûn
• ava kirin
• ava çûn
• avayî
• rojava

 

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 #)

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

Conjugation of ava (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	ava		avas
Supine	avat		avats
Imperative	ava		—
Imper. plural1	aven		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	avar	avade	avas	avades
Ind. plural1	ava	avade	avas	avades
Subjunctive2	ave	avade	aves	avades
	Participles
Present participle	avande
Past participle	avad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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

Tolai personal pronouns

	singular	dual	paucal	plural
1st person exclusive	iau	amir mir	amital mital	avet ave1
1st person inclusive	-	dor	datal	dat da1
2nd person	u	amur mur	amutal mutal	avat ava1
3rd person	ia i	dir di	dital	diat dia1
1) The plural pronouns lose the final -t when preceding a verb.

Turkish

Noun

ava

1. dative singular of av

Venetan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin apis.

Noun

ava f (plural ave)

1. bee