prao
English
Noun
prao (plural praos)
- Alternative form of proa.
Anagrams
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian and Portuguese proa, from Malay parau; Compare Indonesian perahu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁa.o/
Audio: (file)
Noun
prao m (plural praos)
- proa
- Cinquante milles peuvent être facilement franchis, soit par des praos malais, soit par de grandes pirogues polynésiennes. (Verne, Île mystérieuse, 1874)
References
- “prao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “prao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Serbo-Croatian
Participle
prao (Cyrillic spelling прао)
- masculine singular active past participle of prati
Spanish
Adjective
prao (feminine praa, masculine plural praos, feminine plural praas)
Noun
prao m (plural praos)
Further reading
- “prao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Swedish
Etymology
Acronym of praktisk arbetslivsorientering (“familiarization of practical working life”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pra͡ʊ/, /ˈprɑː.ʊ/
- Rhymes: -aʊ
Noun
prao c
- (education) a program where Swedish and Finnish high school students spend some weeks at a workplace in order to gain knowledge about working life
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | prao | praos |
| definite | praon | praons | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |