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ava

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

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɑː.və/
Rhymes: -ɑːvə

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.

Derived from avama (“to open”).

ava (genitive ava, partitive ava)

hole, opening

Declension of ava (ÕS type 17u/sõna, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		ava	avad
accusative	nom.	ava
accusative	gen.	ava
genitive		ava	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

avamäng

ava

Second-person singular imperative form of avama.

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.

IPA^(key): /aˈʋa/

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

ava (plural avakuéra, locative avápe, comitative avaicha)

a man, human, person
people
(strictly) the Guarani people or all Indigenous people in general

From Latin ava.

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

ava f (plural ave)

female equivalent of avo (“ancestor”)

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

ava f

bean
Synonym: fijon (Balkan)

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

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

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

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ava	avae
Genitive	avae	avārum
Dative	avae	avīs
Accusative	avam	avās
Ablative	avā	avīs
Vocative	ava	avae

Friulian: ave
Italian: ava
Sardinian: aba

“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.

(Milanese) IPA^(key): /ˈa.va/

ava f

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa.

ava

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

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