ناو

نَاوِ • (nāwi) (form III) /naː.wi/

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of نَاوَى (nāwā)

From Proto-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /naːu̯/

ناو (naw)

1. name

• بێناو (bênaw)

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [næːw]

ناو • (nāw)

1. meow

• ناوناو (nawnaw, “to meow”)

• IPA^(key): /nɑːʋ/

From Sanskrit नामन् (nāman, “name”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

ناو • (nāv) m (plural ناو, Devanagari नाव)

1. name

   مےٚ روٗد نٕہ تٔمؠ سُنٛد ناو وَنِہ

   me rūd nụ tạm' sund nāv vanih

   I couldn’t remember his name

From Sanskrit नावा (nāvā). Also influenced by Classical Persian ناو (nāv).

ناو • (nāv) f (plural ناوِ, Devanagari नाव)

1. boat

   ناوِ چھےٚ سَرَس پؠٹھ پَکان ― nāvi che saras pyaṭh pakān ― Boats travel on the lake

Borrowed from Persian ناو (nâv, “anything long and hollow”).

ناو • (nav)

1. pipe, tube, anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape

   Synonyms: بورو (boru), لوله (lüle)

2. drainpipe, a pipe that carries fluid which is being drained
3. gutter, drain, a channel intended for the drainage of water

   Synonym: اولق (oluk)

4. boat, a watercraft, smaller than a ship, used for various purposes

   Synonym: قایق (kayık)

• Turkish: nav

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nav”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3499
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “nâv”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 970
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ناو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 5120
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ناو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2068

From Middle Persian nʾw (nāw, “ship”), from Old Persian 𐎴𐎠𐎺 (n-a-v /⁠nāva⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *náHuš (compare Ossetian нау (naw) / науӕ (nawæ)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *náHuš (compare Sanskrit नाव (nāva)), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs), Latin nāvis).

ناو • (nâv) (plural ناوها)

1. (archaic) boat, small ship
   • 11th century, Abulfazl-i Bayhaqī, Tārīx-i Bayhaqī

     […] ناوی ده بیاوردند.

     […] nâvê dah biyâvardand.

     [...] they brought ten boats.

2. warship; cruiser
3. anything long and hollow
4. pipe
5. gutter, drainpipe, water pipe, downpipe
6. a river, stream; channel, canal, aqueduct; river basin
7. a cistern; tankage
8. trough; feeder
9. the sluice of a mill-dam
10. the furrow or groove down the middle of a man's back or the loins of a horse; also in a grain of wheat and a date-stone
11. gluteal cleft
12. the passage through which the meal or flour runs when grinding
13. a hole
14. a crack, chink
15. a baker's rolling-pin
16. a frying pan
17. a cauldron, kettle, pot
18. an easy, graceful air in walking

• → Armenian: նավ (nav)
• → Azerbaijani: nov
• → Ottoman Turkish: ناو (nav)
  • Turkish: nav
• → Udi: наъв (na̱v, “gutter, trough”)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “ناو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul