proa
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Malay perau, a variant of perahu. In some forms via Portuguese parão or Dutch prauw; in some forms assimilated to prow.
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proa (plural proas)
- A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXII, [1]
- I noticed that on the sea were numerous fantastically shaped canoes—or rather boats—like Malay proas, or the canoes used by many of the South Sea islanders.
- 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 231:
- Malay ‘prahu’ or proa were said to be more than a match for British vessels.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXII, [1]
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Noun edit
proa f (plural proes)
- Alternative form of proba
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin prōra, from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prôira).
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proa f (plural proes)
Further reading edit
- “proa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “proa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “proa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “proa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
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proa m (plural proas)
- Alternative spelling of prao
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- “proa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin prōra, from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prôira).
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proa f (plural proas)
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- “proa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
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proa
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of proer:
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proa f (plural [please provide])
Occitan edit
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proa f (plural pruas)
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Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin prōra, from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prôira), related to pro (“beginning, forward”). Compare Spanish proa, French proue.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pro‧a
Noun edit
proa f (plural proas)
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Further reading edit
- “prôa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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proa
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish proda, from Vulgar Latin *prōda, from Latin prōra (via dissimilation), borrowed from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prôira), from Proto-Indo-European *pro-, form of *por-. Compare Italian proda.
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proa f (plural proas)
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References edit
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1985), “proa”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 657
Further reading edit
- “proa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014