nau

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nau"

Translingual

Symbol

nau

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Nauruan.

English

Etymology

Portuguese nau. Doublet of nef and nave.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nou, IPA^(key): /naʊ/
• Rhymes: -aʊ

Noun

nau (plural naus)

1. (historical) Synonym of carrack
   • 2008, Liam Matthew Brockey, Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World‎^[1]:

     Bentley Duncan has even suggested that it was the prospect of trade rather than the doubtful facilities of the dockyard that persuaded so many naus to stop at Mozambique Island.

Anagrams

• Anu, UNA, Una, añu

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin nāvem.

Noun

nau f (plural naus)

1. ship

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “nau”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Basque

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /nau̯/ [nau̯]
• Rhymes: -au̯
• Hyphenation: nau

Verb

nau

1. Third-person singular (hark), taking first-person singular (ni) as direct object, present indicative form of izan.

Usage notes

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan nau, from Latin nāvem, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈnaw]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aw

Noun

nau f (plural naus)

1. ship

   Hypernym: vaixell

2. (architecture) nave

   nau lateral ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. industrial building

Derived terms

• nau espacial

Related terms

• naval
• navili

Descendants

• → Portuguese: nau, nao
  • → English: nau
• → Spanish: nao

Further reading

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

Chuukese

Noun

nau

1. son

Crimean Tatar

Pronoun

nau

1. that

Fiji Hindi

Numeral

nau

1. nine

References

• Fiji Hindi Dictionary
• Siegel, Jeff (1977) Say it in Fiji Hindi, Australia: Pacific Publications, →ISBN, page 28

Japanese

Romanization

nau

1. Rōmaji transcription of なう
2. Rōmaji transcription of ナウ

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese não.

Adverb

nau

1. no

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naw/

Verb

nau

1. to want

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin nāvis, nāvem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naw/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

nau f (plural naus)

1. ship, vessel, watercraft

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nāwā, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Cognate with Latin navis and Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs)

Noun

nau f (genitive naue)

1. boat

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	nauL	nauL	noaH
Vocative	nauL	nauL	noaH
Accusative	nauN	nauL	noaH
Genitive	naueH	nauL	nauN
Dative	nauL	noïb	noïb
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: nó, nóe
  • Irish: nae

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 nó, noe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German nun, Dutch nu, English now.

Adverb

nau

1. now

Portuguese

nau

Alternative forms

• nao (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan nau, from Latin nāvis. Compare Spanish nao. Doublet of nave.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnaw/ [ˈnaʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈnaw/

• Rhymes: -aw
• Hyphenation: nau

Noun

nau f (plural naus)

1. a three or four-masted sailing ship used all along the 15th century and early 16th created by the portuguese (Lusitanians) to explore a new trade route via the Atlantic to India and the new world
2. vessel
3. carrack

Descendants

• → English: nau

Sudovian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *náwjas, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos. Compare Lithuanian naũjas, Old Prussian nauns, however Latvian jaûns.

Adjective

nau

1. new

   Antonym: ſenſ (“old”)

   • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 192, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):

     nowy — nau

     nowy — new

See also

• iauniſ (“young”)

Tahitian

Adjective

nau

1. some

Synonyms

• tau

References

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “nau” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

From English now.

Adverb

nau

1. now
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:2:

     Tasol graun i no bin i stap olsem yumi save lukim nau.

     →New International Version translation

Vietnamese

Etymology

From an infixed form (with *-rn-) of Proto-Vietic ancestor of Vietnamese đau (“to be aching, sore, hurt, in pain; to be sick, ill (Northern)”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [naw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [naw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [na(ː)w˧˧]

Noun

nau • (㝹)

1. (obsolete) pain
   • Late 15th century, Tao Đàn nhị thập bát tú (Twenty-Eight Mansions of Tao Đàn), Hồng Đức Quốc Âm thi tập (Collection of Poem in the Nation's Language), folio 69b

     唯唯隊㝹郡𦛌𦚐

     Dói dói đòi nau quặn ruột rà.

     Sharp and keen are the guts' many twistings and writhings.

   • 18th century, Đặng Trần Côn, Chinh phụ ngâm (Lament of the Soldier's Wife); Vietnamese translation by Đoàn Thị Điểm, lines 333-334; English translation based on Huỳnh Sanh Thông's version.

     Thiết một thân phòng không luống giữ,
     Thời tiết lành nhầm nhỡ đòi nau.

     Pitiful is the lonely wife inside an empty room who lets her finest seasons [endure] much haphazard agony.

   • 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Truyện Kiều (傳翹), Liễu Văn Ðường edition, published 1866, lines 1129-1130:

     Hoá nhi thật có nỡ lòng,
     Làm chi giày tía vò hồng lắm nau!

     Oh how pitiless you are, Creator!
     Why stamp on this rosy and purple flower which already had much pain in her heart? / Why inflict on this rosy and purple flower so much pain?

2. (obsolete) birth pang