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)

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

Derived terms

averiar

Descendants

→ Tagalog: aberya

Verb

avería

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

Further reading

“avería”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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