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nau

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nau"

Translingual edit

Symbol edit

nau

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

English edit

Etymology edit

Portuguese nau. Doublet of nef and nave.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit

Aragonese edit

Etymology edit

From Latin nāvem.

Noun edit

nau f (plural naus)

  1. ship

References edit

Basque edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Verb edit

nau

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

Usage notes edit

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

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

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

Further reading edit

Chuukese edit

Noun edit

nau

  1. son

Crimean Tatar edit

Pronoun edit

nau

  1. that

Fiji Hindi edit

Numeral edit

nau

  1. nine

References edit

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

nau

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

Kabuverdianu edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese não.

Adverb edit

nau

  1. no

Lashi edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

nau

  1. to want

References edit

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

Occitan edit

Etymology edit

From Latin nāvis, nāvem.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

nau f (plural naus)

  1. ship, vessel, watercraft

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

nau f (genitive naue)

  1. boat

Declension edit

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 edit

Further reading edit

Pennsylvania German edit

Etymology edit

Compare German nun, Dutch nu, English now.

Adverb edit

nau

  1. now

Portuguese edit

 
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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Catalan nau, from Latin nāvis.[1][2] Compare Spanish nao. Doublet of nave.

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -aw
  • Hyphenation: nau

Noun edit

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 edit

  • → English: nau

References edit

  1. ^ “nau” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. ^ “nau” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Sudovian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *náwjas, from Proto-Indo-European *néwyos. Compare Lithuanian naũjas, Old Prussian nauns, however Latvian jaûns.[1][2]

Adjective edit

nau

  1. new
    Antonym: ſenſ (“old”)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, number 1, page 77: “nau ‘naujas, l. nowy’ 192.”
  2. ^ “naũjas” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. nau adj. ‘neu’”.

Tahitian edit

Adjective edit

nau

  1. some

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Tok Pisin edit

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Etymology edit

From English now.

Adverb edit

nau

  1. now

Vietnamese edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

Noun edit

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
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