ava

ava

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Doublet of kava.

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

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.

• AAV

Derived from avama (“to open”).

ava (genitive ava, partitive ava)

1. hole, opening

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

• avamäng

• avatud
• avaus
• avar

ava

1. Second-person singular imperative form of avama.

Inherited from Latin apis.

ava f

1. bee

• Sandro Cergna (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 31

From Latin ava.

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

ava f (plural ave)

1. female equivalent of avo (“ancestor”)

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

ava f

1. bean

   Synonyms: djurguelo (Edirne), fijon (Balkan)

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

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

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

1. grandmother
2. old wives' tale

First-declension noun.

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

• “ava”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "ava", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.

• (Milanese) IPA^(key): /ˈa.va/

ava f

1. bee

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa.

ava

1. man

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈvɑː/

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

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

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

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

ava

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

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “ava”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 18, column 2

ava

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

• “ava”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

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

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

ava f

1. (Surmiran) water

• ava da bever
• ava minerala
• ava dalla spegna

ava

1. passage through a coral reef for boats

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

ava (not comparable)

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

• no ava

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

ava m or f by sense (plural ava)

1. Ava (denomination of Guarani)

Short for avannonsera

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

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

• påa

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *awa (“channel, opening in a reef” – compare with Māori awa, Rarotongan ava, Samoan ava) from Proto-Oceanic *sawaŋ from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sawaŋ.^[1]

ava

1. channel, passage^[2]
2. entrance into a harbour

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

• IPA^(key): /ava/

ava

1. wing

ava

1. to fly
2. to travel by plane

• 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.

• avat (when not preceding a verb)

ava

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

ava

1. dative singular of av

Ultimately from Latin apis.

ava f (plural ave)

1. bee