Ava

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ava"

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪvə/
• Homophone: aver (noun sense, RP)
• Rhymes: -eɪvə

Proper noun

Ava

1. 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.

2. A female given name from Irish, an anglicization of Aoife.
3. A female given name from the Germanic languages, from a Germanic root *avi of uncertain meaning.
4. A locale in the United States.
   1. A city in Illinois.
   2. A city, the county seat of Douglas County, Missouri.
   3. An unincorporated community in Alabama.
   4. An unincorporated community in Arkansas.
   5. An unincorporated community in Ohio.

Usage notes

The female given name was popular in the 2000s in all English-speaking countries.

Etymology 2

From Portuguese, from the Upper Burmese pronunciation of အင်းဝ (ang:wa. /⁠ăwá⁠/).

Alternative forms

• (Burmese city): Awa, Inwa, Innwa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːvə/

Proper noun

Ava

1. (historical) An abandoned city in central Burma, formerly the capital of the country.
2. A town in New York, United States; named for the Kingdom of Ava.

Translations

city in Myanmar

• Burmese: အင်းဝ (ang:wa.)
• Lü: ᦀᧂᦞᦱ (˙ʼangvaa)
• Shan: ဢႃႇဝႃႉ (ʼàa wâ̰a)
• Thai: อังวะ (th) (ang-wá)

Anagrams

• AAV

Dalmatian

Proper noun

Ava

1. (Vegliot) a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Eve

References

• 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