ava
Translingual
Symbol
ava
English
Pronunciation
Noun
ava (uncountable)
- 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
Estonian
Etymology
Derived from avama (“to open”).
Noun
ava (genitive ava, partitive ava)
Inflection
Declension of ava (ÕS type 17u/sõna, no gradation) | |||
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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
Related terms
Verb
ava
- Second-person singular imperative form of avama.
Guaraní
Pronunciation
Noun
ava
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ava f (plural ave)
- female equivalent of avo (“ancestor”)
Ladino
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish faba, from Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).
Noun
ava f
Latin
Etymology
Feminine counterpart to avus (“grandfather”) formed with *-éh₂, compare Gothic 𐌰𐍅𐍉 (awō, “grandmother”), although conceivably a secondary formation. Compare avia.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.u̯a/, [ˈäu̯ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.va/, [ˈäːvä]
Noun
ava f (genitive avae); first declension (Late Latin)
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
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
Noun
ava f
Mbyá Guaraní
Noun
ava
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
Adjective
ava (comparative avatir, superlative herî ava or avatirîn, Arabic spelling ئاڤا)
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
Romansch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.
Noun
ava f
Derived terms
Samoan
Noun
ava
Scots
Pronunciation
Adverb
ava (not comparable)
Derived terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
ava m or f by sense (plural ava)
- Ava (denomination of Guaraní)
Swedish
Etymology
Short for avannonsera
Verb
ava (present avar, preterite avade, supine avat, imperative ava)
Conjugation
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
Teanu
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *kapak (“to flap wings; wing”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kapak.
Pronunciation
Noun
ava
Verb
ava
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
- Second-person plural pronoun: you (many)
Declension
Turkish
Noun
ava
Venetian
Etymology
Noun
ava f (plural ave)
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