avería
See also: averiá
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abeˈɾia/ [a.β̞eˈɾi.a]
- Rhymes: -ia
- Syllabification: a‧ve‧rí‧a
Etymology 1
From Catalan avaria (“breakdown, damage”), from Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʿawāriyya, “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:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “avería”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014