aval

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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 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

• 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

1. apple

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French aval.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aval m (plural avals)

1. endorsement

Further reading

• “aval” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “aval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *aβal, from Proto-Celtic *abūl, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aval m (plural avalow or avallow)

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”)
• limaval (“lime”)
• lymmaval (“lemon”)
• owraval (“orange”)
• pinaval (“pineapple”)
• sugen aval (“apple juice”)

Estonian

Noun

aval

1. adessive singular of ava

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.val/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

From à + val.

Noun

aval m (uncountable)

1. downstream area, lower reaches (of river)

Derived terms

• en aval (adjective) (downstream)

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
• → 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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French aval.^[1][2]

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈvaw/ [aˈvaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈval/ [ɐˈvaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈval/ [ɐˈvaɫ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈbal/ [ɐˈβaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈva.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: a‧val

Noun

aval m (plural avais)

1. permit (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)

   Synonyms: permissão, autorização, licença

2. (figurative) authorization, approval

References

1. “aval”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
2. “aval”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aval.

Noun

aval n (uncountable)

1. downstream

Declension

Declension of aval

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	aval	avalul
genitive-dative	aval	avalului
vocative	avalule

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French aval.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈbal/ [aˈβ̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: a‧val

Noun

aval m (plural avales)

1. endorsement
   • 2024 May 16, Camilo S. Baquero, Marc Rovira, “Junqueras quiere que la militancia avale su aspiración a seguir liderando ERC”, in El País‎:

     Oriol Junqueras aspira a llegar al congreso extraordinario de ERC, que se celebrará el 30 de noviembre, con un aval claro de la militancia para repetir como presidente de la formación, pese a haber dejado el cargo el miércoles.

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2. countersignature
3. guarantee

Derived terms

• avalar
• avalista

Further reading

• “aval”, 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