avanie
French
editEtymology
editInherited 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”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editavanie f (plural avanies)
- (historical) avania (Ottoman tax)
- (figuratively, by extension) affront, insult; snub
Descendants
edit- → Polish: awania
Further reading
edit- “avanie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editNoun
editavanie f pl
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