nau

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nau"

English

Etymology

Portuguese nau

Noun

nau (plural naus)

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

     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

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Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

nau f (plural naus)

1. ship

References

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

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Catalan

Etymology

From , from Latin nāvis, nāvem, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈnaw]
• Rhymes: -aw

Noun

nau f (plural naus)

1. ship

Derived terms

• nau espacial

Related terms

• naval
• navili

See also

• vaixell

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.

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Chuukese

Noun

nau

1. son

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Crimean Tatar

Pronoun

nau

1. that

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Fiji Hindi

Numeral

nau

1. nine

References

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

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Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese não.

Adverb

nau

1. no

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Lashi

Verb

nau

1. want

References

• https://inter.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Luk_Hkaw_Thesis2017.pdf

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Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naw/

Etymology

From Latin nāvis, nāvem

Noun

nau f (plural naus)

1. ship, vessel, watercraft

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Old Irish

Noun

nau f

1. Archaic form of nó

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Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German nun, Dutch nu, English now.

Adverb

nau

1. now

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Portuguese

nau

Alternative forms

• nao (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaw/
• Rhymes: -aw

Noun

nau f (plural naus)

1. A three or four-masted sailing ship used all along the 15th century and early 16th
2. vessel
3. carrack

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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.

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English now.

Adverb

nau

1. now
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