aval
Noun
A financial guarantee by a third party to assume the burden of a debt, especially a bill of exchange in the event of default.
Adjective
Of, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent.
Usage- not-comparable
- Rare
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Sosrodihardjo found it hard to support his children, and the young Sukarno was sent to stay with his grandmother […] Believing that the boy had supernatural powers of healing, she put him to licking the afflicted parts of ailing villagers, and decided that he would be a clairvoyant. But alas for aval ambitions; Sukarno turned out to be a visionary of quite a different sort.
Noun
Synonym of flattened rice.
Usage- Uncountable
Word forms
avals