# val
## Translingual
### Symbol

val
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Vehes.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Vehes terms

## English
### Etymology

Shortening of Valium.

### Noun

val (countable and uncountable, plural vals)
* (informal) Valium.
** 1997 May 29, Kate Sholl, “Re: MED: Pain relief in Neck?”, in alt.med.fibromyalgia‎ (Usenet):and i must be on that list of people that need to get knocked over with a hammer 'cause vicodin and val don't knock me out.
** 1998 December 29, rob [username], “Re: Depression and MS(leg/feet burning pain)”, in alt.support.mult-sclerosis‎ (Usenet):I would think though that whatever the reason for a panic attack valium would be great. I know that if my house was on fire and I was on 15mg of val It would take a lot more energy than I had, to panic. ;^)
** 2002 June 28, FllSpdAhd1 [username], “Re: Valium?”, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav‎ (Usenet):I'm a medic and phenobarb is the primary drug for true seizures, but the OP states the cat presents seizure like behavior at the sound of her voice. I don't know where any of you are from, but we don't treat seizures with val.

### Anagrams

* AVL, LAV, Vla., lav

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch vallen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fal/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

val (present val, present participle vallende, past participle geval)
* to fall

## Aragonese
### Alternative forms

* vache (Tensino Panticuto), vall (Benasquese)

### Etymology

From Latin valles.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbal/
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: val

### Noun

val f (plural vals)
* valley

### References

* “valle”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈbal]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈval]
* Rhymes: -al

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

val m (plural vals)
* voucher

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

val
* inflection of valer:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
* inflection of valdre:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

#### Interjection

val
* okay

### Further reading

* “val” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “val”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “val” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Czech
### Etymology

Derived from Middle High German wal, from Latin vallum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈval]
* Rhymes: -al

### Noun

val m inan
* bulwark, rampart

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “val”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “val”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “val”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse valr.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvaːl/, [ˈʋæˀl]
* Homophone: hval

#### Noun

val c (singular definite valen, not used in plural form)
* (poetic) battlefield

#### References

* “val” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “Val,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German wal or Dutch wal (“coast, shore”), from Latin vallum. Doublet of vold.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvalˀ/, [ˈʋalˀ]
* Homophone: valg

#### Noun

val c (singular definite vallen, not used in plural form)
* (obsolete) steep coastline
** 1779, Johannes Ewald, Romance (from the play Fiskerne), now royal anthem of Denmark / https://kalliope.org/da/text/ewlad1999022205:
    Fra Vallen hørtes Vraal, som brød | Den tykke Skye.
       From the coast a cry was heard that broke the thick cloud.

#### References

* “Val,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse vǫllr, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), cognate with German Wald. Doublet of vold. Alternatively, the same word as the noun above.

#### Noun

val c (singular definite vallen, not used in plural form)
* (obsolete) plain
** 1812, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Til Danerkongen Frederik hin Sjette (in: Poetiske Skrifter, vol. 3, p. 2):
    Paa faste Val og paa den grønne Strand, | At ofre villig baade Liv og Blod.
       On the firm plain and the green beach to sacrifice both life and blood.

#### References

* “Val,3” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɑl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: val
* Rhymes: -ɑl
* Homophone: Val

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch val, from Old Dutch *fal, from Proto-West Germanic *fall, from Proto-Germanic *fallaz. Equivalent to a deverbal of vallen (“to fall”).

#### Noun

val m (plural vallen, diminutive valletje n)
* a fall (act or event of falling)
* a downfall, demise
    Synonym: ondergang

##### Derived terms

* avondval
* bouwval
* kabinetsval
* knieval
* maatval
* naamval
* nachtval
* regenval
* rijmval
* sneeuwval
* toonval
* valavond
* valkuil
* valstrik
* valuur
* verzenval
* waterval
* zondeval

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch valle, from Old Dutch falla, ultimately from the root of vallen (“to fall”), thus related to Etymology 1 above.

#### Noun

val f (plural vallen, diminutive valletje n)
* a physical trap, snare
* any trap, ploy

##### Derived terms

* berenval
* geurval
* muizenval

### Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Probably of the same origin as walvis (“whale”), being the largest land fish.

#### Noun

val m (plural vallen, diminutive valletje n)
* (obsolete) a catfish
    Synonym: meerval
* any of its relatives in the family Siluridae

##### Derived terms

* meerval
* pantserval
* sidderval
* slangval
* vinval

### Etymology 4

From Sanskrit वल्ल (valla), a word used for various grains and pulses, or for a unit of weight equal to 3 रक्तिका (raktikā). The explanation of latter meaning is that the रक्तिका (raktikā) is named after the seeds of Abrus precatorius, of which there are often 3 in a pod.

#### Noun

val m (plural vals, diminutive valletje n)
* (obsolete) an East Indian weight for silver and gold.
** 1682, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, De zes reizen van den Heer J. Bapt. Tavernier, die hij, gedurende de tyt van veertig jaren, in Turkyen, Persiën, en in d'Indiën, langs alle de wegen, die derwaarts strekken, gedaan heeft [The six voyages of Lord J. Bapt. Tavernier, which he made during the period of forty years, in Turkey, Persia, and in the Indies, along all the roads leading thither], Amsterdam: Weduwe Johannes van Someren, page 12:Wat de Spaansche Reaal aangaat / die drieënzeventig Vals weegt / men heeft 'er vier Mamoudiën en een halve voor / en een Mamoudi geld twintig Pechas; en in dezer voegen heeft men voor de Spaansche Reaal tnegentig [sic] Pechas: maar zij moeten / gelijk ik gezegt heb / goed zijn / en drieenzeventig Vals wegen.As for the Spanish real, which weighs seventy-three vals, one gets four and a half mahmudi for it, and a mahmudi is worth twenty paisa; and in this way one has ninety paisa for the Spanish real: but they should, as I was saying, be good, and weigh seventy-three vals.

### Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

val
* inflection of vallen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### References

* ↑ Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) “valla-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 462
* ↑ Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “वल्ल”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
* ↑ Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “val”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

### Anagrams

* vla

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse val (“choice”) (see the verb velja (“to choose”)), from Proto-Germanic *walą.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɛaːl

### Noun

val n (genitive singular vals, plural val)
* choice
    Eg hevði einki val. ― I had no choice.
* (politics) election
    Í dag er val í Norðurkorea, og tað gongur fyri seg upp á ein heilt serligan hátt. ― Today there is an election in North Korea, and it is happening in a very special way.
* quality

#### Declension
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French val, from Latin vallem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /val/

### Noun

val m (plural vaux)
* (literary) valley, vale

#### Derived terms

* par monts et par vaux
* Val d’Aoste
* Val de Loire
* vallée
* vallon

### See also

* VAL

### Further reading

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

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem.

### Noun

val f (plural valis)
* valley

#### Synonyms

* valdade

## Galician
### Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese vale, from Latin vallis, vallem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbal/ [ˈbɑɫ]
* Rhymes: -al

### Noun

val m (plural vales)
* valley
** c1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 122:
    Et ao ferir, braadarõ et deron tan grãdes vozes que os vales rretenyam.As they clashed, they shouted and cried so aloud that the valleys resounded.

#### Derived terms

* Balboa
* Doval
* Val
* Valboa
* Valbón
* Valcovo
* Vales
* Valía
* Valilongo
* Valín
* Valiña
* valiña
* Valiñaxemia
* Valiño
* Valmaior
* Valonga
* Valongo
* Valouta
* Valquente
* Valverde
* Varalongo
* Varilongo

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vale”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vale”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “val”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “val”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “val”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse val (“choice”) (see the verb velja (“to choose”)), from Proto-Germanic *walą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vaːl/
* Rhymes: -aːl

### Noun

val n (genitive singular vals, nominative plural völ)
* choice
* selection

#### Derived terms

* náttúruval
* kynbundið val

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈval/
* Rhymes: -al
* Hyphenation: vàl

### Noun

val f (apocopated)
* Apocopic form of valle

### Verb

val
* Apocopic form of vale

### Anagrams

* Vla.

## Livonian
### Alternative forms

* (Courland) va'l

### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *valo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *waĺɜ. Cognates include Finnish valo.

### Noun

val
* light

## Middle High German
### Etymology

Inherited from Old High German val.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈval/, /ˈfal/

### Noun

val m
* fall
* (grammar) case
** 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln, Der meide krancz (Codex Palatinus germanicus (Cod. Pal. germ.) 14)
    Wÿ man dy namen brechen ſol Nach iren vellen hin czu cal [the following verses contain a declension of Petrus (genitive Petri, dative Petro, accusative Petrum, vocative Petre and ablative Petro)]How one shall inflect/decline (literally break) the nouns After their cases over to number

#### Related terms

* vallen

#### Descendants

* German: Fall

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vaðill (“ford, shallow water”).

#### Noun

val m (definite singular valen, indefinite plural valer, definite plural valene)
* inlet, shallow bay

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse valr (“the fallen”).

#### Noun

val m (definite singular valen, indefinite plural valer, definite plural valene)
* (poetic) battlefield

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse val.

#### Noun

val n
* form removed with the spelling reform of 1959; superseded by valg

### References

* “val” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vaːl/, /vaːɽ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse val, from Proto-Germanic *walą.

#### Noun

val n (definite singular valet, indefinite plural val, definite plural vala)
* choice
    Du har ikkje noko val.You don't have a choice.
* election
    Synonym: røysting
    Kven skal du røysta på til valet?Who are you going to vote for in the election?

##### Derived terms

* utval
* valkamp

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse valr, from Proto-Germanic *walaz.

#### Noun

val m (definite singular valen, uncountable)
* the slain (in battle)

##### Derived terms

* Valgrind
* Valhall
* valkyrje
* valplass (“battle ground”)

### References

* “val” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* vath (Gascony)
* vau (Provençal)

### Etymology

From Latin vallis.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Noun

val f (plural vals)
* valley

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* vaul

### Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem.

### Noun

val oblique singular, m (oblique plural vaus or vax or vals, nominative singular vaus or vax or vals, nominative plural val)
* valley

#### Descendants

* → English: vale
* French: val

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fall, from Proto-Germanic *fallaz.

### Noun

val m
* fall

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: val
** German: Fall

## Old Norse
### Noun

val
* accusative singular of valr

## Piedmontese
### Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /val/

### Noun

val f (plural vaj)
* valley

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvaw/ [ˈvaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈval/ [ˈvaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈval/ [ˈvaɫ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈbal/ [ˈbaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈva.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Homophones: vale (Portugal), vau (Brazil)
* Hyphenation: val

### Noun

val m (plural vales)
* Apocopic form of vale (“valley”)

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic валъ (valŭ), from Proto-Slavic *valъ. Compare Serbo-Croatian val; close to Albanian valë.

#### Noun

val n (plural valuri)
* wave
    Synonym: undă

##### Derived terms

* învălura
* învălui
* vălări

##### Related terms

* năvăli
* prăvăli
* valmă

### Etymology 2

From Latin vallum (“wall, rampart”), probably a later borrowing; cf. German Wall, Italian vallo, also English wall.

#### Noun

val n (plural valuri)
* earth rampart which served in antiquity as a military stronghold

##### See also

* văl

## Romansch
### Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem.

### Noun

val f (plural vals)
* valley

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *valъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋâːl/

### Noun

vȃl m (Cyrillic spelling ва̑л)
* (regional, Croatia) wave (a long body of water curling into an arched form)
    Synonym: tȁlās

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Etymology

Derived from Middle High German wal, from Latin vallum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [val]

### Noun

val m inan (relational adjective valový)
* bulwark, rampart

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “val”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *valъ

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋáːl/

### Noun

vȃl m inan
* wave, undulation

#### Derived terms

* valováti
* valovéti
* valovíti
* valôven

### Further reading

* “val”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbal/ [ˈbal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: val

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

val m (plural valles)
* Apocopic form of valle: valley

##### Derived terms

* Valparaíso

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

val
* Apocopic form of vale: is worth
    mi casa y mi hogar cien doblas val. (val rhymes with hogar, assonant rhyme)there's no place like home.

##### Usage notes

* In Old Spanish, after the consonants /d/, /n/, /l/, /ʎ/, /ɾ/ and /θ/, a final /e/ was regularly elided, as in pid, vien, val, quier, faz, versus the modern forms of pide, viene, vale, quiere, and hace, with -e restored by analogy (compare modern Portuguese, which still has apocope in words such as vem (“he/she comes”), quer (“he/she wants”), faz (“he/she does”)). In modern Spanish, a few apocopes following coronal consonants are still preserved: buen, gran, san, derived from bueno, grande, and santo.

### Further reading

* “val”, 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

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɑːl/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Old Swedish hval, from Old Norse hvalr, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”).

#### Noun

val c
* a whale

##### Derived terms

* blåval
* grindval
* grönlandsval
* kaskelottval
* kaskelotval
* knölval
* pottval
* sillval
* valdjur
* valfisk
* valfångst
* valhaj
* valkokeri
* valolja
* valrav
* valsång
* vitval

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse val (related to the verb velja (“to choose”)), from Proto-Germanic *walą. Related to välja, vilja (English will).

#### Noun

val n
* a choice
    Du har inget valYou don't have a choice
* an election

##### Derived terms

* allmänt val
* andrahandsval
* behandlingsval
* delstatsval
* Europaparlamentsval
* extra val
* felval
* flerpartival
* flervalsuppgift
* fyllnadsval
* förbundsdagsval
* förstahandsval
* förstaval
* förval
* kommunalval
* kongressval
* kyrkoval
* livsval
* lokalval
* nyval
* omval
* ordval
* parlamentsval
* personval
* presidentval
* primärval
* provval
* regionval
* riksdagsval
* urval
* valaffisch
* valallians
* valanalys
* valbarometer
* valberedning
* valboskap
* valbroschyr
* valbudskap
* valbås
* valdag
* valdebatt
* valdeltagande
* valdistrikt
* valfläsk
* valfri
* valfrihet
* valfusk
* valhemlighet
* valkampanj
* valkrets
* vallokal
* vallöfte
* valmyndighet
* valmöjlighet
* valnatt
* valnämnd
* valobservatör
* valsedel
* valstuga
* valurna
* valvaka
* valår
* valövervakare
* valövervakning
* vara i valet och kvalet
* vägval

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse valr (“the slain, the fallen”), from Proto-Germanic *walaz (“corpse, body; carnage”).

#### Noun

val c
* (obsolete) the fallen; casualties of a war or battle

##### Declension
### References

* val in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* val in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* val in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* ↑ Government terms, Government Offices of Sweden

### Anagrams

* alv, lav

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /val/
* Hyphenation: vàl

### Noun

val f (plural val)
* valley

#### Synonyms

* vałe