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aval en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a French àabbr.? French valoirabbr.? French avalbor. English aval Borrowed from French aval.

Meanings

  1. A financial guarantee by a third party to assume the burden of a debt, especially a bill of exchange in the event of default.

Forms

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Translations (12)

kk аваль (financial guarantee) · fi vekselitakaus (financial guarantee) · fi avaali (financial guarantee) · io avalo (financial guarantee) · es aval (financial guarantee) · es fianza (financial guarantee) · pl awal (financial guarantee) · es satisdación (financial guarantee) · eo avalo (financial guarantee) · kk кепілхат (financial guarantee) · bg авал (financial guarantee) · th อาวัล (financial guarantee)

aval en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From Latin avus (“grandfather”) + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Of, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent.
    • 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. 1973, Wilfred T. Neill, Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Columbia University Press, published 1973, →ISBN, page 299:

Hyponyms

grandmotherly (grandmother) · grandmaternal (grandmother) · grandfatherly (grandfather) · grandpaternal (grandfather)

Synonyms

grandparental

aval en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

From Malayalam അവൽ (aval) or Tamil அவல் (aval).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Synonym of flattened rice.

Synonyms

flattened rice