English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪvə/
• Rhymes: -eɪvə

Proper noun

Ava

1. A female given name. Popular in the 2000s in all English-speaking countries.
   • 1881 Mary E. Jackson: The Spy of Osawatomie; or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown, W.S.Bryan 1881, page 57

     Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory.

   • 2004 Gayle Brandeis, The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel, HarperCollins, ISBN 0060528044, page 5

     My mother named me Ava because she liked how the English letters looked - the big A a beak pointed upward, the v a sharp slash of wings, the small a round and flat as a parrot's eye.

2. A city in Illinois.
3. A city in Missouri.
4. A town in New York.
5. An unincorporated community in Ohio.

Etymology 2

From Portuguese, from the Upper Burmese pronunciation of အင်းဝ ‎(ang:wa.) (/ʔəwa̰/).

Alternative forms

• Inwa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːvə/

Proper noun

Ava

1. (historical) An abandoned city in central Burma, formerly the capital of the country.

English

Noun

ava ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative form of kava

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   • 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Bottle Imp

     […] the schooners plying up the coast for wood and ava and bananas.

Estonian

Etymology

Derived from avama ‎(“to open”).

Noun

ava ‎(genitive ava, partitive ava)

1. hole, opening

Inflection

Derived terms

• avamäng

Related terms

• avatud
• avaus
• avar

Verb

ava

1. Second-person singular imperative form of avama.

Guaraní

Noun

ava

1. man

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ava.

Noun

ava f ‎(plural ave) feminine of avo

1. female ancestor

Latin

Etymology

Cf. avia. From the feminine of avus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.wa/

Noun

ava f ‎(genitive avae); first declension

1. grandmother
2. old wives' tale

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Friulian: ave
• Italian: ava

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ava”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Portuguese

Interjection

ava

1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of ah, vá

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Noun

ava f

1. (Surmiran) water

Derived terms

• ava da bever
• ava minerala
• ava dalla spegna

Samoan

Noun

ava

1. passage through a coral reef for boats

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əˈvɑː], [əˈvɔː], [əˈvaː]

Adverb

ava ‎(not comparable)

1. at all
2. without stopping
3. of all

Derived terms

• no ava

Spanish

Noun

ava m, f ‎(plural ava)

1. Ava (denomination of Guaraní)

Swedish

Etymology

Short for avannonsera

Verb

ava

1. (radio, slang) to announce a song or radio program at its end

Conjugation

Antonyms

• påa

Tolai

Alternative forms

• avat (when not preceding a verb)

Pronoun

ava

1. Second-person plural pronoun: you (many)

Declension

Turkish

Noun

ava

1. dative singular of av

Venetian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin apis.

Noun

ava f (plural ave)

1. bee