# aval
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French aval.

#### Noun

aval (plural avals)
* (finance, law) A financial guarantee by a third party to assume the burden of a debt, especially a bill of exchange in the event of default.

##### Translations
#### References

* aval, in Investopedia.

### Etymology 2

From Latin avus (“grandfather”).

#### Adjective

aval (not comparable)
* (rare) Of, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent.
** 1973, Wilfred T. Neill, Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Columbia University Press, published 1973, →ISBN, page 299:Sosrodihardjo found it hard to support his children, and the young Sukarno was sent to stay with his grandmother […] Believing that the boy had supernatural powers of healing, she put him to licking the afflicted parts of ailing villagers, and decided that he would be a clairvoyant. But alas for aval ambitions; Sukarno turned out to be a visionary of quite a different sort.

##### Synonyms

* grandparental

##### Hyponyms

* (grandfather): grandfatherly, grandpaternal
* (grandmother): grandmaternal, grandmotherly

### Etymology 3

From Malayalam അവൽ (aval) or Tamil அவல் (aval).

#### Noun

* Synonym of flattened rice

### Anagrams

* Alva, Lava, Vaal, lava

## Breton
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *aβal, from Proto-Celtic *abūl, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑː.val/

### Noun

aval m
* apple

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French aval.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əˈβal]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əˈval]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aˈval]

### Noun

aval m (plural avals)
* endorsement

### Further reading

* “aval” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “aval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *aβal, from Proto-Celtic *abūl, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

### Pronunciation

* (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA: [ˈaval]
* (Revived Late Cornish) IPA: [ˈævɐl]

### Noun

aval m (plural avalow or avallow)
* apple

#### Derived terms

* aval briansen (“larynx”)
* aval dor (“potato”)
* aval dor brewys (“mashed potato”)
* aval goodh (“crabapple, wild apple”)
* aval gwlanek (“peach”)
* aval kerensa (“tomato”)
* aval lagas (“eyeball”)
* aval paradhis (“grapefruit”)
* aval saben (“pinecone”)
* avalen (“apple tree”)
* limaval (“lime”)
* lymmaval (“lemon”)
* owraval (“orange”)
* pinaval (“pineapple”)
* sugen aval (“apple juice”)

## Estonian
### Noun

aval
* adessive singular of ava

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.val/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From à + val.

#### Noun

aval m (uncountable)
* downstream area, lower reaches (of river)

##### Derived terms

* en aval (adjective) (downstream)

### Etymology 2

Probably an abbreviation of à valoir.

#### Noun

aval m (plural avals)
* approval, endorsement

##### Descendants

* → Catalan: aval
* → English: aval
* → Galician: aval
* → Italian: avallo
* → Portuguese: aval
* → Russian: ава́ль (aválʹ)
** → Kazakh: аваль (aval)
* → Spanish: aval
* → Thai: อาวัล (aa-wan)
* → Turkish: aval
* → Ukrainian: ава́ль (aválʹ)

### Further reading

* “aval”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* lava

## Occitan
### Etymology

a +‎ val

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Adverb

aval
* down
    Antonym: amont

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French aval, probably from an abbreviation of à valoir.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈvaw/ [aˈvaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈval/ [ɐˈvaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈval/ [ɐˈvaɫ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈbal/ [ɐˈβaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈva.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: a‧val

### Noun

aval m (plural avais)
* permit (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
    Synonyms: permissão, autorização, licença
* (figurative) authorization, approval

### References

* ↑ “aval”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “aval”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French aval.

### Noun

aval n (uncountable)
* downstream

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French aval.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈbal/ [aˈβ̞al]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: a‧val

### Noun

aval m (plural avales)
* endorsement
** 2024 May 16, Camilo S. Baquero, Marc Rovira, “Junqueras quiere que la militancia avale su aspiración a seguir liderando ERC”, in El País‎:Oriol Junqueras aspira a llegar al congreso extraordinario de ERC, que se celebrará el 30 de noviembre, con un aval claro de la militancia para repetir como presidente de la formación, pese a haber dejado el cargo el miércoles.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* countersignature
* guarantee

#### Derived terms

* avalar
* avalista

#### Further reading

* “aval”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10