aval

Borrowed from French aval.

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.

• aval, in Investopedia.

From Latin avus (“grandfather”).

aval (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent.
   • 1973, Wilfred T. Neill, Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Columbia University Press (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.

• grandparental

• (grandfather): grandfatherly, grandpaternal
• (grandmother): grandmaternal, grandmotherly

• Alva, Lava, lava

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.val/

aval m

1. apple

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

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

aval m (plural avalow or avallow)

1. apple

• IPA^(key): /a.val/

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From à + val.

aval m (uncountable)

1. downstream area, lower reaches (of river)

• en aval (adjective) (downstream)

Probably an abbreviation of à valoir.

aval m (plural avals)

1. approval, endorsement

• lava

• “aval” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

a +‎ val

aval

1. down

   Antonym: amont

aval m (plural avais)

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

• permissão, autorização, licença

• avaliação

Borrowed from French aval.

• IPA^(key): /aˈbal/, [aˈβal]

aval m (plural avales)

1. endorsement
2. countersignature
3. guarantee

• avalar

• “aval” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.