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ava

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ava"
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ava

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

English

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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.

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Estonian

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Etymology

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Derived from avama (“to open”).

Noun

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ava (genitive ava, partitive ava)

  1. hole, opening

Inflection

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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

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Verb

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ava

  1. Second-person singular imperative form of avama.

Guaraní

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Etymology

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    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.

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    IPA(key): /aˈʋa/

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

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    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

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    Etymology

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    From Latin ava.

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

    Noun

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    ava f (plural ave)

    1. female equivalent of avo (“ancestor”)

    Ladino

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    Etymology

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

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    ava f

    1. bean
      Synonym: fijon (Balkan)

    Latin

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    Etymology

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

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

    1. grandmother
    2. old wives' tale

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    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative ava avae
    genitive avae avārum
    dative avae avīs
    accusative avam avās
    ablative avā avīs
    vocative ava avae

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

    References

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    • “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.

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    ava f

    1. bee

    Mbyá Guaraní

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa.

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      ava

      1. man
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      References

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

      Northern Kurdish

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      Etymology

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

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      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

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      References

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

      Portuguese

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      Interjection

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      ava

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

      Romansch

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      Alternative forms

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      Etymology

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

      Noun

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      ava f

      1. (Surmiran) water

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      Samoan

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      Noun

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      ava

      1. passage through a coral reef for boats

      Scots

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

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      ava (not comparable)

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

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      Spanish

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      Pronunciation

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

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      ava m or f by sense (plural ava)

      1. Ava (denomination of Guaraní)

      Swedish

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      Etymology

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      Short for avannonsera

      Verb

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

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

      Conjugation

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      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.

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      Teanu

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      Etymology

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

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      ava

      1. wing

      Verb

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      ava

      1. to fly
      2. to travel by plane

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      Tolai

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      Alternative forms

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      • avat (when not preceding a verb)

      Pronoun

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      ava

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

      Declension

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      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

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      Noun

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      ava

      1. dative singular of av

      Venetan

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      Etymology

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      Ultimately from Latin apis.

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      ava f (plural ave)

      1. bee
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