avanie

Inherited from Old French aveinie, from Italian avania, from Byzantine Greek ἀβανία (abanía, cfr. modern Greek αβανιά (avaniá) “defamation, slander”), possibly from Arabic خَوَّان (ḵawwān, “unreliable, treacherous”).

• IPA^(key): /a.va.ni/

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• Rhymes: -i

avanie f (plural avanies)

1. (historical) avania (Ottoman tax)
2. (figuratively, by extension) affront, insult; snub

• → Polish: awania

• “avanie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

avanie f pl

1. plural of avania