wau
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ϝαῦ (waû).
Noun[edit]
wau (plural waus)
See also[edit]
- Appendix:Greek alphabet
- Archaic Greek alphabet:
Anagrams[edit]
Anjam[edit]
Noun[edit]
wau
References[edit]
- Robert Rucker, Anjam Organised Phonology Data (2000), p. 2
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ϝαῦ (waû). Doublet of waw.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
wau n (plural waus, diminutive wautje n)
Further reading[edit]
- digamma on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
wau
Derived terms[edit]
Hausa[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
wau f (possessed form wan)
- waw (letter of the Arabic alphabet)
Hawaiian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Polynesian *au, from Proto-Oceanic *(i-)au, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
wau
- Alternative form of au
See also[edit]
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Malay wau, from Classical Malay واو (wau), from Thai ว่าว (wâao).
Noun[edit]
wau (plural wau-wau, first-person possessive wauku, second-person possessive waumu, third-person possessive waunya)
- kite (flying toy on string)
- Synonym: layang-layang
Further reading[edit]
- “wau” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
wau
- Romanization of ꦮꦲꦸ
Malay[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Thai ว่าว (wâao). Cognate with Pattani Malay وا (wa).
Noun[edit]
wau (Jawi spelling واو, plural wau-wau, informal 1st possessive wauku, 2nd possessive waumu, 3rd possessive waunya)
- kite (flying toy on string)
- Hypernym: layang-layang
Descendants[edit]
- Indonesian: wau
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
wau (Jawi spelling واو, plural wau-wau, informal 1st possessive wauku, 2nd possessive waumu, 3rd possessive waunya)
- The name of the twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و
- The name of the thirtieth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in Arabic script: و
Further reading[edit]
- “wau” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Marshallese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English Oʻahu or Oahu, from Hawaiian Oʻahu, named because the missionaries who introduced the Mother Hubbard dress to the Marshall Islands came from Oʻahu.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [wɑːu], (enunciated) [wɑ wu]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /wæɰwiw/
- Bender phonemes: {wahwiw}
Noun[edit]
wau
References[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
wau
- Alternative form of wawe
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
wau m (plural waus)
- the sound /w/ (labiovelar approximant) or /u̯/ (non-syllabic /u/)
Further reading[edit]
- “wau”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Greek letter names
- Anjam lemmas
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- Dutch terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Dutch doublets
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- nl:Greek letter names
- German 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:German/aʊ̯
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- German lemmas
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- Hausa terms borrowed from Arabic
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- ha:Arabic letter names
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Oceanic
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
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- Javanese non-lemma forms
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- Malay 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Malay/au̯
- Malay terms borrowed from Thai
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- Marshallese terms borrowed from English
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- mh:Clothing
- Middle English lemmas
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Hebrew
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- Spanish 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/au
- Rhymes:Spanish/au/1 syllable
- Spanish lemmas
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- Spanish terms spelled with W
- Spanish masculine nouns