nau

Portuguese nau

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.

• Anu, UNA, Una, añu

nau f (plural naus)

1. ship

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

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

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈnaw/
• Rhymes: -aw

nau f (plural naus)

1. ship

• nau espacial

• naval

• vaixell

nau

1. son

nau

1. that

nau

1. nine

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

From Portuguese não.

nau

1. no

nau

1. want

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

• IPA^(key): /naw/

From Latin nāvis, nāvem

nau m (plural naus)

1. ship, vessel, watercraft

nau f

1. Archaic form of nó

Compare German nun, Dutch nu, English now.

nau

1. now

• nao (obsolete)

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈnaw/
• Rhymes: -aw

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

nau

1. some

• tau

• 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.

From English now.

nau

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

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