avería

See also: averiá

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abeˈɾia/ [a.β̞eˈɾi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: a‧ve‧rí‧a

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Catalan avaria (“breakdown, damage”), from Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya, “damage in transit”).

Noun

avería f (plural averías)

1. breakdown (a failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed)

Derived terms

• averiar

 

Descendants

• → Tagalog: aberya

Etymology 2

Verb

avería

1. inflection of averiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “avería”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16