avarie

From Middle French/Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria (compare modern Italian avaria); ultimately from Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya).

• IPA^(key): /a.va.ʁi/

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avarie f (plural avaries)

1. damage
2. deterioration

• avarié

• → Romanian: avarie

• “avarie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

avarie f

1. plural of avaria

• aeravi, vaiare, vaierà

Borrowed from Old Italian avaria, of probable Arabic origin.

avarie oblique singular, f (oblique plural avaries, nominative singular avarie, nominative plural avaries)

1. damage done to goods on a watercraft when they are thrown overboard due to a risk of the watercraft capsizing

• Middle French: avarie
  • French: avarie
    • → Romanian: avarie
  • → Middle English: average
    • English: average

• Etymology and history of “avarie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “avarie”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

avarie

1. inflection of avariar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French avarie.

avarie f (plural avarii)

1. damage