avel

Borrowed from Latin āvellō.

• IPA^(key): /əˈvɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

avel (third-person singular simple present avels, present participle avelling, simple past and past participle avelled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pull away.

From Hebrew אבל (avel).

• ovel

avel (plural avels or avelim)

1. (Judaism) A mourner.

• avelut

• Leva, Vale, Veal, Vela, eval, lave, leva, vale, veal, vela

From Middle Breton avel, from Old Breton auel, from Proto-Brythonic *awel (“wind”), from Proto-Celtic *awelā (“wind, breeze”) (compare Cornish awel and Welsh awel).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːvɛl/, /ˈɑːwɛl/

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avel f

1. wind

• (literary, archaic) gwent

From *avel cimplavel, from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

avel

1. the year before last

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 148

• aver

From Hebrew אוויר (avír), from Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr).

avel m

1. air

• Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “aver”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
• Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “avér”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 69
• Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) “aver”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 51

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀆𑀯𑁂𑀇 (āvei), from Sanskrit आपयति (āpayati), from आप् (āp) + -अयति (-ayati).

avel

1. to come

• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
• Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “avel (avilǎs)”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 146

avel c

1. selective breeding (of animals)

Just "breeding" might sound more natural as a translation. Compare uppfödning (“breeding”), which is possibly less selective.

• avelshingst (“stud horse”)

• avla (“to breed”)

• uppfödning (“breeding”)

• avel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• avel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• avel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Originally a dialectal variation of aval.

• IPA^(key): /aˈvel/
• Hyphenation: a‧vel

avel(originally dialectal)

1. (slang, offensive) retarded, stupid, foolish

   Synonym: bön

   avel avel bakmak ― to look stupidly

avel (definite accusative aveli, plural aveller)

1. (slang, offensive) idiot, retard, fool

• “avel”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982