Ava
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ava"
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈeɪvə/
- Homophone: aver (noun sense, RP)
- Rhymes: -eɪvə
Proper noun edit
Ava
- A female given name from Hebrew, a variant of Eva.
- 1881, Mary E. Jackson, The Spy of Osawatomie; or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown, W.S.Bryan, page 57:
- Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory.
- 2004, Gayle Brandeis, The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5:
- My mother named me Ava because she liked how the English letters looked - the big A a beak pointed upward, the v a sharp slash of wings, the small a round and flat as a parrot's eye.
- A female given name from Irish, an anglicization of Aoife.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages, from a Germanic root *avi of uncertain meaning.
- A locale in the United States.
- A city in Illinois.
- A city, the county seat of Douglas County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in Ohio.
Usage notes edit
The female given name was popular in the 2000s in all English-speaking countries.
Etymology 2 edit
From Portuguese, from the Upper Burmese pronunciation of အင်းဝ (ang:wa. /ăwá/).
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Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Ava
- (historical) An abandoned city in central Burma, formerly the capital of the country.
- A town in New York, United States; named for the Kingdom of Ava.
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Dalmatian edit
Proper noun edit
Ava
- (Vegliot) a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Eve
References edit
- Ive, A. (1886), “L'antico dialetto di Veglia [The old dialect of Veglia]”, in G. I. Ascoli, editor, Archivio glottologico italiano [Italian linguistic archive], volume 9, Rome: E. Loescher, pages 115–187