ава

Related to Erzya, Moksha, and Tuvan ава (ava).

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈvɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɑ
• Hyphenation: ава

ава • (ava)

1. mother
2. mother-in-law (husband's mother)
3. (agriculture) female

   ава кияр

   ava kijar

   seed cucumber (literally, “female cucumber”)

4. (mythology) spirit, ghost
5. (computing) parent

• J. Bradley et al. (2023) “ава”, in The Mari Web Project: Mari-English Dictionary, University of Vienna

From Proto-Mordvinic *ava. See Moksha ава (ava) for more.

• IPA^(key): /ɑvɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɑ
• Hyphenation: а‧ва

ава • (ava)

1. woman

   Synonym: (young) тейтерява (tejteŕava)

   велень ава ― veleń ava ― a country woman

2. mother

   Авам лезды тень кудонь тевтнесэ.

   Avam lezdï teń kudoń tevtnesë.

   My mother helps me with housework.

   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 4:

     I sovamsto kudos neize eikakšośt sońze avanzo Marijań marto.

     On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary.

• adverbs: авакс (avaks)
• nouns: ававт (avavt), авне (avne), авине (avine), авака (avaka), ававтомо (avavtomo), авакай (avakaj), аваксчи (avaksči), авакш (avakš)

• nouns: азорава (azorava), аварозь (avaroź), инязорава (ińazorava), аваловсо (avalovso)

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “ава”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish هوا (hava), from Arabic هَوَاء (hawāʔ).

• IPA^(key): [ˈava]
• Rhymes: -ava

ава • (ava) f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) air

   Synonym: воздух (vozduh)

2. (colloquial) climate, atmospheric condition

   Synonyms: поднебје (podnebje), клима (klima)

• “ава” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu
• Belčev, Tole (2016) “ава”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language]‎^[1] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 14

According to Feoktistov, from a Turkic language.^[1] Veršinin considers suggestions of borrowing completely baseless, he is convinced that the term is of child language origin (its original meaning being "mother"), according to him, the following are of a similar origin: Eastern Mari ава (ava), Western Mari ӓвӓ (ävä), cf. dialectal Eastern Mari аппа! (appa!, “[an exclamation for a baby to smile]”), Tundra Nenets [script needed] (āppa, “mother [child language]”). Parallel developments in unrelated languages: Northern Selkup ама (ama, “mother”), Basque ama (“id.”), Nivkh ымык (əmək, “id.”), Koryak [script needed] (-aw'-) in [script needed] (ŋaw'gyjnik, “female [animal]”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ɑvɑ/

ава • (ava)

1. lady
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN

     дама — ава

     dama — ava

     lady [in Russian] — lady

2. (zoology) female
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN

     самка — ава

     samka — ava

     female [in Russian] — female

3. woman
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN

     женщина — ава

     ženščina — ava

     woman [in Russian] — woman

4. wife
   • Oahpa, University of Tromsø

     vaimo — ава

     vaimo — ava

     wife [in Finnish] — wife

5. mom
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN

     мама — ава/авай

     mama — ava /avaj

     mom [in Russian] — mom

• (mother): тядя (tädä)

• авань (avań)
• авафтома (avaftoma)
• мокшава (mokšava)
• рузава (ruzava)

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”). Cognate to dialectal Turkish aba (“mother, elder sister”).

ава • (ava)

1. father

• ада (ada)

N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “ава”, in Severnyje dialekty Altajskovo (Ojrotskovo Jazyka- Dialekt kumandincev(Kumandin Kiži) [Northern Dialect of Altai -Kumandin Dialect(Kumandin kiži)], Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoja literatury, →ISBN

Clipping of авата́р (avatár, “avatar”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈavə]
• IPA^(key): [ɐˈva] (rare)

а́ва • (áva) f inan (genitive а́вы, nominative plural а́вы, genitive plural ав, diminutive а́вка)

1. (Internet slang) pfp, profile pic, user pic

   Synonyms: авата́р (avatár), авата́рка (avatárka), юзерпи́к (juzerpík)

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”). Cognate to dialectal Turkish aba (“mother, elder sister”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈβa/

ава • (ava) (definite accusative аваны, plural авалар)

1. mother

From English avatar, in turn derived from Hindustani अवतार / اوتار (avtār), from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈaʋɐ]

а́ва • (áva) f inan (genitive а́ви, nominative plural а́ви, genitive plural ав)

1. (Internet slang) clipping of авата́р (avatár, “avatar”), especially an Internet user's icon