# ava
## Translingual
### Symbol

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

## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɑː.və/
* Rhymes: -ɑːvə

### 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

* AAV

## Estonian
### Etymology

Derived from avama (“to open”).

### Noun

ava (genitive ava, partitive ava)
* hole, opening

#### Derived terms

* avamäng

#### Related terms

* avatud
* avaus
* avar

### Verb

ava
* Second-person singular imperative form of avama.

## Guaraní
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa, from Proto-Tupian *apʷũ.
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.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /aˈʋa/
* (Paraguayan Guarani, Eatern Guarani) IPA: [aˈʋa], [aˈva];
* (Southwestern Guarani) IPA: [aˈʋa].

### Noun

ava (plural avakuéra, locative avápe, semblative aváicha)
* a man, human, person
* people
* (strictly) the Guarani people or all Indigenous people in general

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin ava.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.va/
* Rhymes: -ava
* Hyphenation: à‧va

### 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
* bean
    Synonym: fijon (Balkan)

## Latin

Picture dictionary :
Network Diagram for Roman Extended Families
atavia
atavus
abavia
abavus
proavia
proavus
avia
/ ava māterna
avus māternus
avia
/ ava paterna
avus paternus
cōnsobrīna
/ mātruēlis
cōnsobrīnus
/ mātruēlis
patruēlis
patruēlis
mātertera
avunculus
amita
patruus
/ barbās
māter
pater
sobrīna
/neptis
/neptia
sobrīnus
/ nepōs
frātruēlis
/neptis
/neptia
nepōs
/frātruus
/frātruēlis
sorōrius
/marītus sorōris
soror
frāter
frātria
/ uxor frātris
socrus
socer
/patraster
socrus
socer
/patraster
soror uxōris
frāter uxōris
glōs
lēvir
uxor
/marīta
/coniunx
/nūpta
marītus
/coniunx
gener
/ fīliaster
fīlia
/ nāta
fīlius
/ nātus
nurus
/ fīliastra
prōgener
neptis
/neptia
nepōs
prōnurus
proneptis
pronepōs
abneptis
abnepōs :

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈa.u̯a/, [ˈäu̯ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈa.va/, [ˈäːvä]

### Noun

ava f (genitive avae); first declension (Late Latin)
* grandmother
* old wives' tale

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Friulian: ave
* Italian: ava
* Sardinian: aba

### 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

* (Milanese) IPA: /ˈa.va/

### Noun

ava f
* bee

## Mbyá Guaraní
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa.

### Noun

ava
* man

#### Related terms

* ava poapê
* ava poxy
* ava'i
* avakue

### References

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

## 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

* IPA: /ɑːˈvɑː/

### Adjective

ava (comparative avatir, superlative herî ava or avatirîn, Arabic spelling ئاڤا)
* built, built up; thriving, flourishing
    Synonym: şên
* (of the Sun) setting
* (of mares) pregnant

#### Derived terms

* ava bûn
* ava kirin
* ava çûn
* avayî
* rojava

### 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
* (Internet slang) Alternative form of ah, vá

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* aua (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter)
* ova (Puter)

### Etymology

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

### Noun

ava f
* (Surmiran) water

#### Derived terms

* ava da bever
* ava minerala
* ava dalla spegna

## Samoan
### Noun

ava
* passage through a coral reef for boats

## Scots
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [əˈvɑː], [əˈvɔː], [əˈvaː]

### Adverb

ava (not comparable)
* at all
* without stopping
* of all

#### Derived terms

* no ava

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaba/ [ˈa.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -aba
* Syllabification: a‧va

### 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)
* (radio, slang) to announce a song or radio program at its end

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### Antonyms

* påa

## Teanu
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ava/

### Noun

ava
* wing

### Verb

ava
* to fly
* to travel by plane

### 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

$^{1)}$ The plural pronouns lose the final -t when preceding a verb.

## Turkish
### Noun

ava
* dative singular of av

## Venetan
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin apis.

### Noun

ava f (plural ave)
* bee