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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, published 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

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

• Synonym of flattened rice

• Alva, Lava, Vaal, lava

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.val/

aval m

1. apple

Borrowed from French aval.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˈβal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˈval]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈval]

aval m (plural avals)

1. endorsement

• “aval” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “aval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

From Proto-Brythonic *aβal, from Proto-Celtic *abūl, 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

aval

1. adessive singular of ava

• IPA^(key): /a.val/

• Audio:

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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

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

• lava

a +‎ val

• Audio (Languedoc):

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aval

1. down

   Antonym: amont

Borrowed from French aval.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: a‧val

aval m (plural avais)

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

   Synonyms: permissão, autorização, licença

2. (figurative) authorization, approval

Borrowed from French aval.

aval n (uncountable)

1. downstream

Borrowed from French aval.

• IPA^(key): /aˈbal/ [aˈβ̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: a‧val

aval m (plural avales)

1. endorsement
   • 2024 May 16, Camilo S. Baquero, Marc Rovira, “Junqueras quiere que la militancia avale su aspiración a seguir liderando ERC”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Oriol Junqueras aspira a llegar al congreso extraordinario de ERC, que se celebrará el 30 de noviembre, con un aval claro de la militancia para repetir como presidente de la formación, pese a haber dejado el cargo el miércoles.

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2. countersignature
3. guarantee

• “aval”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28