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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈeɪvə/
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• homophone: Ava
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• General-American: /ˈeɪvɚ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈvɜː/
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• General-American: /əˈvɝ/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: EY1 V ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English aver, avere (“workhorse; any beast of burden (?); things which are owned, possessions, property, wealth; state of being rich, wealth; ownership, possession”) [and other forms], and then either: * from Old French aver, aveir, avoir (“possession, property; (collectively) beasts of burden; domestic animals; cattle”) (modern French avoir (“asset, possession”)), from aveir, avoir (“to have”), from Latin habēre (“to have, hold; to have, own (possessions)”), from Proto-Indo-European *gheh1bh-, *ǵheh1bh- (“to grab, take”); or * from Old English eafor (“workhorse; tenant’s obligation to transport goods”), further etymology uncertain.

From Middle English averren, from Old French averer, from Early Medieval Latin advērō, a verb derived from Latin vērus (“true”). Compare Modern French avérer.

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: твърдя (tvǎrdja) — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Bulgarian: заявявам (zajavjavam) — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Bulgarian: настоявам (nastojavam) — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Czech: tvrdit — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Czech: prohlašovat — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Czech: ujišťovat — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• French: affirmer — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Italian: asserire — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Polish: zatwierdzać — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Polish: zatwierdzić — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Russian: утвержда́ть (utverždátʹ) — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Russian: заявля́ть (zajavljátʹ) — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Serbo-Croatian: izjaviti — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Serbo-Croatian: ustvrditi — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Spanish: asegurar — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Turkish: iddia etmek — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Turkish: ileri sürmek — to assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner
• Bulgarian: доказвам (dokazvam) — to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)
• Polish: zapewniać — to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)
• Polish: zapewnić — to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)
• Russian: дока́зывать (dokázyvatʹ) — to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)
• Serbo-Croatian: potkrepiti — to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)
• Serbo-Croatian: potkrijepiti — to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)
• Turkish: kanıtlamak — to prove or justify (an allegation or plea that one has made)