xaval

Borrowed from Caló chavale, vocative plural of chavó (“boy”). Compare Spanish chaval.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ʃəˈβal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ʃəˈval]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [t͡ʃaˈval]

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xaval m (plural xavals, feminine xavala, feminine plural xavales)

1. (colloquial) boy, young man

   Synonym: noi

• xava

• “xaval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “xaval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “xaval”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007