aval

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French aval.

Noun

aval (plural avals)

1. (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

financial guarantee

Bulgarian: авал m (aval) Esperanto: avalo Finnish: vekselitakaus, avaali Ido: avalo (io) Kazakh: аваль (aval), кепілхат (kepılxat) Polish: awal (pl) m Spanish: aval (es) m, satisdación (es) f, fianza (es) f Thai: อาวัล (aa-wan)

References

• aval, in Investopedia.

Etymology 2

From Latin avus (“grandfather”).

Adjective

aval (not comparable)

1. (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

aval

1. 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^(key): /ˈɑː.val/

Noun

aval m (plural avaloù)

1. apple

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French aval.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˈβal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˈval]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈval]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

aval m (plural avals)

1. endorsement

Further reading

• “aval”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “aval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Cornish

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aval

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Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *aβal, from Proto-Celtic *abūl, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl. Cognate with Breton aval, Irish úll, Manx ooyl, Scottish Gaelic ubhal, and Welsh afal.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈaval]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˈævɐl]

Noun

aval m (plural avalow or lavalow)

1. 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”)
• avallan (“orchard”)
• avalowa (“gather apples”, verb)
• limaval (“lime”)
• lymmaval (“lemon”)
• owraval (“orange”)
• pinaval (“pineapple”)
• sugen aval (“apple juice”)

Noun

aval (collective, singulative avalen f)

1. apple trees

Derived terms

• aval krabbys (“crabapple”)
• avalennek (“orchard”)

Estonian

Noun

aval

1. adessive singular of ava

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.val/

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Etymology 1

From à +‎ val.

Noun

aval m (uncountable)

1. downstream area, lower reaches (of river)

Derived terms

• en aval (“downstream”, adjective)

Descendants

• → Romanian: aval

Etymology 2

Probably an abbreviation of à valoir.

Noun

aval m (plural avals)

1. approval, endorsement

Descendants

• → Catalan: aval
• → English: aval
• → Galician: aval
• → Italian: avallo
• → Portuguese: aval
• → Romanian: 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):

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Adverb

aval

1. down

   Antonym: amont