ава

See also: -ава and Appendix:Variations of "aba"

Eastern Mari

Etymology

Related to Erzya ава (ava).

Noun

ава (ava)

  1. mother
  2. mother-in-law, husband's mother
  3. (agriculture) female
    ава кияр
    ava kijar
    seed cucumber (lit. female cucumber)

Erzya

Etymology

Related to Eastern Mari ава (ava).

Noun

ава (ava)

  1. woman
  2. mother
    авам
    avam
    my mother

Moksha

Etymology

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), c.f., 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: Selkup ама (mother), Basque ama (id.), Nivkh ымык (əmək, id.), Koryak [script needed] (-aw'-) in [script needed] (ŋaw'gyjnik, female [animal]).[2]

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ɑvɑ/

Noun

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

Declension

Synonyms

  • (mother): тядя (tjadja)

Derived terms

References

  1. A. P. Feoktistov (1993), Jazyki mira: Uralʹskije jazyki (MOKŠANSKIJ JaZYK) [Languages of the world: Uralic languages (Moksha language)], Moscow, pages 178—189
  2. Veršinin, V. I. (2004) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mordovskix (erzjanskovo i mokšanskovo) jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Mordvinic (Erzya and Moksha) languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Joškar Ola, page 5

Russian

Etymology

Clipping of авата́р (avatár, avatar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈavə]

Noun

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

  1. (slang) avatar

Declension

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