avanie
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French aveinie, from Italian avania (“a heavy tax”), from Byzantine Greek ἁβανία (habanía) (modern Greek αβανιά (avaniá, “defamation, slander”)), from Arabic خَوَّان (ḵawwān, “unreliable, traitor”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.va.ni/
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Further reading
- “avanie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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