val

Shortening of Valium.

val (countable and uncountable, plural vals)

1. (informal) Valium.
   • 1997 May 29, Kate Sholl, “Re: MED: Pain relief in Neck?”, in alt.med.fibromyalgia‎ (Usenet):

     and i must be on that list of people that need to get knocked over with a hammer 'cause vicodin and val don't knock me out.

   • 1998 December 29, rob [username], “Re: Depression and MS(leg/feet burning pain)”, in alt.support.mult-sclerosis‎ (Usenet):

     I would think though that whatever the reason for a panic attack valium would be great. I know that if my house was on fire and I was on 15mg of val It^[sic] would take a lot more energy than I had, to panic. ;^)

   • 2002 June 28, FllSpdAhd1 [username], “Re: Valium?”, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav‎ (Usenet):

     I'm a medic and phenobarb is the primary drug for true seizures, but the OP states the cat presents seizure like behavior at the sound of her voice. I don't know where any of you are from, but we don't treat seizures with val.

• AVL, LAV, Vla., lav

From Dutch vallen.

• IPA^(key): /fal/

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val (present val, present participle vallende, past participle geval)

1. to fall

• vache (Tensino Panticuto), vall (Benasquese)

From Latin valles.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: val

val f (plural vals)

1. valley

• “valle”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈval]
• Rhymes: -al

val m (plural vals)

1. voucher

val

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

val

1. okay

• “val” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “val”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “val” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Derived from Middle High German wal, from Latin vallum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈval]
• Rhymes: -al

val m inan

1. bulwark, rampart

• val in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• val in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• val in Internetová jazyková příručka

Borrowed from Old Norse valr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːl/, [ˈʋæˀl]
• Homophone: hval

val c (singular definite valen, not used in plural form)

1. (poetic) battlefield

• “val” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “Val,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from Middle Low German wal or Dutch wal (“coast, shore”), from Latin vallum. Doublet of vold.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvalˀ/, [ˈʋalˀ]
• Homophone: valg

val c (singular definite vallen, not used in plural form)

1. (obsolete) steep coastline
   • 1779, Johannes Ewald, Romance (from the play Fiskerne), now royal anthem of Denmark / https://kalliope.org/da/text/ewlad1999022205:

     Fra Vallen hørtes Vraal, som brød | Den tykke Skye.

     From the coast a cry was heard that broke the thick cloud.

• “Val,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From Old Norse vǫllr, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), cognate with German Wald. Doublet of vold. Alternatively, the same word as the noun above.

val c (singular definite vallen, not used in plural form)

1. (obsolete) plain
   • 1812, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Til Danerkongen Frederik hin Sjette (in: Poetiske Skrifter, vol. 3, p. 2):

     Paa faste Val og paa den grønne Strand, | At ofre villig baade Liv og Blod.

     On the firm plain and the green beach to sacrifice both life and blood.

• “Val,3” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

• IPA^(key): /vɑl/

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• Hyphenation: val
• Rhymes: -ɑl
• Homophone: Val

From the verb vallen (“to fall”).

val m (plural vallen, diminutive valletje n)

1. A fall (act or event of falling).
2. A downfall, demise.

   Synonym: ondergang

3. (in compounds) A case, modality
4. (in compounds) The falling of the night, nightfall.

From Middle Dutch valle, from Old Dutch falla, ultimately from the root of vallen (“to fall”), thus related to Etymology 1 above.

val f (plural vallen, diminutive valletje n)

1. A physical trap, snare.
2. Any trap, ploy.

• berenval
• geurval
• muizenval

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

val

1. inflection of vallen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Probably of the same origin as walvis (“whale”), being the largest land fish.

val m (plural vallen, diminutive valletje n)

1. (obsolete) A catfish.

   Synonym: meerval

2. Any of its relatives in the family Siluridae.

• meerval
• pantserval
• sidderval
• slangval
• vinval

From Sanskrit वल्ल (valla)[1][2] , a word used for various grains and pulses, or for a unit of weight equal to 3 रक्तिका (raktikā). The explanation of latter meaning is that the रक्तिका (raktikā) is named after the seeds of Abrus precatorius, of which there are often 3 in a pod.[3]

val m (plural vals, diminutive valletje n)

1. (obsolete) An East Indian weight for silver and gold.(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
   • 1682, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, De zes reizen van den Heer J. Bapt. Tavernier, die hij, gedurende de tyt van veertig jaren, in Turkyen, Persiën, en in d'Indiën, langs alle de wegen, die derwaarts strekken, gedaan heeft [The six voyages of Lord J. Bapt. Tavernier, which he made during the period of forty years, in Turkey, Persia, and in the Indies, along all the roads leading thither], Amsterdam: Weduwe Johannes van Someren, page 12:

     Wat de Spaansche Reaal aangaat / die drieënzeventig Vals weegt / men heeft 'er vier Mamoudiën en een halve voor / en een Mamoudi geld twintig Pechas; en in dezer voegen heeft men voor de Spaansche Reaal tnegentig [sic] Pechas: maar zij moeten / gelijk ik gezegt heb / goed zijn / en drieenzeventig Vals wegen.

     As for the Spanish real, which weighs seventy-three vals, one gets four and a half mahmudi for it, and a mahmudi is worth twenty paisa; and in this way one has ninety paisa for the Spanish real: but they should, as I was saying, be good, and weigh seventy-three vals.

• vla

From Old Norse val (“choice”), from the verb velja (“to choose”).

• Rhymes: -ɛaːl

val n (genitive singular vals, plural val)

1. choice

   Eg hevði einki val. ― I had no choice.

2. (politics) election

   Í dag er val í Norðurkorea, og tað gongur fyri seg upp á ein heilt serligan hátt. ― Today there is an election in North Korea, and it is happening in a very special way.

3. quality

Inherited from Old French val, from Latin vallem.

• IPA^(key): /val/

val m (plural vaux)

1. (literary) valley, vale

• par monts et par vaux
• Val d’Aoste
• Val de Loire
• vallée
• vallon

• VAL

• “val”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin vallis, vallem.

val f (plural valis)

1. valley

• valdade

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese vale, from Latin vallis, vallem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal/

val m (plural vales)

1. valley
   • c1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 122:

     Et ao ferir, braadarõ et deron tan grãdes vozes que os vales rretenyam.

     As they clashed, they shouted and cried so aloud that the valleys resounded.

• “vale” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “vale” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “val” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “val” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “val” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Norse val (“choice”), from the verb velja (“to choose”).

• IPA^(key): /vaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

val n

1. choice
2. selection

• náttúruval
• kynbundið val

• IPA^(key): /ˈval/
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: vàl

val f (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of valle

val

1. Apocopic form of vale

• Vla.

• (Courland) va'l

From Proto-Finnic *valo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *waĺɜ. Cognates include Finnish valo.

val

1. light

From Old High German val.

val m

1. fall
2. (grammar) case
   • 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln, Der meide krancz (Codex Palatinus germanicus (Cod. Pal. germ.) 14)

     Wÿ man dy namen brechen ſol
     Nach iren vellen hin czu cal
     [the following verses contain a declension of Petrus (genitive Petri, dative Petro, accusative Petrum, vocative Petre and ablative Petro)]

     How one shall inflect/decline (literally break) the nouns
     After their cases over to number

• German: Fall

From Old Norse vaðill (“ford, shallow water”).

val m (definite singular valen, indefinite plural valer, definite plural valene)

1. inlet, shallow bay

From Old Norse valr (“the fallen”).

val m (definite singular valen, indefinite plural valer, definite plural valene)

1. (poetic) battlefield

From Old Norse val.

val n

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1959; superseded by valg

• “val” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /vaːl/, /vaːɽ/

From Old Norse val, from Proto-Germanic *walą.

val n (definite singular valet, indefinite plural val, definite plural vala)

1. choice

   Du har ikkje noko val.

   You don't have a choice.

2. election

   Synonym: røysting

   Kven skal du røysta på til valet?

   Who are you going to vote for in the election?

• utval
• valkamp

From Old Norse valr, from Proto-Germanic *walaz.

val m (definite singular valen, uncountable)

1. the slain (in battle)

• “val” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• vath (Gascony)
• vau (Provençal)

From Latin vallis.

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val f (plural vals)

1. valley

• vaul

From Latin vallis, vallem.

val oblique singular, m (oblique plural vaus or vax or vals, nominative singular vaus or vax or vals, nominative plural val)

1. valley

• → English: vale
• French: val

From Proto-West Germanic *fall, from Proto-Germanic *fallaz.

val m

1. fall

• Middle High German: val
  • German: Fall

val

1. accusative singular of valr

From Latin vallis, vallem.

• IPA^(key): /val/

val f (plural vaj)

1. valley

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Homophones: vale (Portugal), vau (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: val

val m (plural vales)

1. Apocopic form of vale (“valley”)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic валъ (valŭ), from Proto-Slavic *valъ. Compare Serbo-Croatian val; close to Albanian valë.

val n (plural valuri)

1. wave

   Synonym: undă

• învălura
• învălui
• vălări

• năvăli
• prăvăli
• valmă

From Latin vallum (“wall, rampart”), probably a later borrowing; cf. German Wall, Italian vallo, also English wall.

val n (plural valuri)

1. earth rampart which served in antiquity as a military stronghold

• văl

From Latin vallis, vallem.

val f (plural vals)

1. valley

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *valъ.

• IPA^(key): /ʋâːl/

vȃl m (Cyrillic spelling ва̑л)

1. (regional, Croatia) wave (a long body of water curling into an arched form)

   Synonym: tȁlās

Derived from Middle High German wal, from Latin vallum.

• IPA^(key): [val]

val m inan

1. bulwark, rampart

• “val”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

From Proto-Slavic *valъ

• IPA^(key): /ʋáːl/

vȃl m inan

1. wave, undulation

• valováti
• valovéti
• valovíti
• valôven

• “val”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal/ [ˈbal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: val

val m (plural valles)

1. Apocopic form of valle: valley

val

1. Apocopic form of vale: is worth

   mi casa y mi hogar cien doblas val. (val rhymes with hogar, assonant rhyme)

   there's no place like home.

• In Old Spanish, after the consonants /d/, /n/, /l/, /ʎ/, /ɾ/ and /θ/, a final /e/ was regularly elided, as in pid, vien, val, quier, faz, versus the modern forms of pide, viene, vale, quiere, and hace, with -e restored by analogy (compare modern Portuguese, which still has apocope in words such as vem (“he/she comes”), quer (“he/she wants”), faz (“he/she does”)). In modern Spanish, a few apocopes following coronal consonants are still preserved: buen, gran, san, derived from bueno, grande, and santo.

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

• IPA^(key): /vɑːl/

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From Old Swedish hval, from Old Norse hvalr, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”).

val c

1. a whale

From Old Norse val, related to the verb velja (“to choose”). Related to välja, vilja (English will).

val n

1. a choice

   Du har inget val

   You don't have a choice

2. an election[1]

From Old Norse valr (“the slain, the fallen”), from Proto-Germanic *walaz (“corpse, body; carnage”).

val c

1. (obsolete) the fallen; casualties of a war or battle

• val in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• val in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• val in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• alv, lav

From Latin vallis, vallem.

• IPA^(key): /val/
• Hyphenation: vàl

val f (plural val)

1. valley

• vałe