canoa

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnoa/, [kaˈno.a]
• Rhymes: -oa
• Hyphenation: ca‧no‧a

Noun

canoa f (plural canoes)

1. canoe (small long and narrow boat)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈno.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈno.a]
• Rhymes: -oa
• Hyphenation: ca‧no‧a

Noun

canoa f (plural canoes)

1. canoe

Hypernyms

• piragua

Related terms

• canotatge

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnɔa/ [kɑˈnɔ.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔa
• Hyphenation: ca‧no‧a

Noun

canoa f (plural canoas)

1. canoe

Further reading

• “canoa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canoa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnɔ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɔa
• Hyphenation: ca‧nò‧a

Noun

canoa f (plural canoe)

1. (nautical) canoe
2. (sports) canoeing

Derived terms

• canoismo
• canoista

Further reading

• canoa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• coana

Latin

Etymology

Spanish canoa

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈnoː.a/, [käˈnoːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.a/, [käˈnɔːä]

Noun

canōa f (genitive canōae); first declension

1. (New Latin) canoe
   • 1635, loannes Eusebius Nierembergius, Historia Naturae, page 262:

     Duo Indi conueniebant in canoam, [...]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1672, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Geographiae et hydrographiae reformatae..., page 508:

     Canoa, est nauis ex vnica abore excauata...

     A canoe, is a boat hollowed out from a single tree...

   • 1780, Joannes Genesius Sepulveda, Joannis Genesii Sepulvedae cordubensis opera cum edita turn inedita ..., page XXII:

     [...] ingenti vi canoarum a Mexicanis ceterisque palustribus oppidis contra classem venientibus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	canōa	canōae
Genitive	canōae	canōārum
Dative	canōae	canōīs
Accusative	canōam	canōās
Ablative	canōā	canōīs
Vocative	canōa	canōae

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.a/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈno.ɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈno.ɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈno(w).ɐ/

• Rhymes: (most dialects) -oɐ, (Southern Brazil) -oa
• Hyphenation: ca‧no‧a

Noun

canoa f (plural canoas)

1. canoe (small long and narrow boat)

Descendants

• → Hunsrik: Kanoh

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno *kanowa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnoa/ [kaˈno.a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oa
• Syllabification: ca‧no‧a

Noun

canoa f (plural canoas)

1. canoe

Derived terms

• canoero
• canotaje

 

Descendants

Descendants

• → Asturian: canoa
• → Catalan: canoa
• → Dutch: kano
• → English: canoe
  • → German: Kanu
  • → Irish: canú
• → Middle French: canoe
  • French: canoë, canoé
• → Galician: canoa
• → Huichol: canuva
• → Italian: canoa
• → Portuguese: canoa
  • → Hunsrik: Kanoh
• → Russian: кано́э (kanóe)
• → San Juan Colorado Mixtec: canuva
• → Ye'kwana: kanowa

Further reading

• “canoa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014