fau

fau

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Fayu.

• IPA^(key): /fáu/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸáu]

fau

1. (of a thing or action) extreme

Borrowed from German Pfau. Doublet of paw, a form borrowed from Polish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.u/
• Rhymes: -au
• Syllabification: fa‧u

fau m animal

1. synonym of paw

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “paw”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

fau

1. alternative form of fou

From Old French fau (“beech”), from Latin fagus.

fau m (plural faus)

1. (Jersey) beech tree

• fou

From Latin fagus.

fau

1. beech

• Franc-Comtois: fô
• Gallo: faeu
• Norman: fau (Jersey)

Inherited from Proto-Oceanic *taqun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

fau

1. year

• Churchward, C.M. (1940) “fau”, in Rotuman Grammar and Dictionary, Sydney: Methodist Church of Australasia, page 275

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *fau, from Proto-Oceanic *paʀu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀu. Cognate with Malay baru and Hawaiian hau.

fau

1. cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus)