wau

Clipping of English Wauja.

wau

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Wauja terms

From the transliteration of Ancient Greek *ϝαῦ (*waû) (reconstructed from Latin vau (/⁠wau̯⁠/)), from Phoenician 𐤅 (w /⁠wāw⁠/). Doublet of vav and waw.

wau (plural waus)

1. Digamma (Ϝ/ϝ).

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wau

1. garden

• Robert Rucker, Anjam Organised Phonology Data (2000), p. 2

From the transliteration of Ancient Greek *ϝαῦ (*waû) (reconstructed from Latin vau (/⁠wau̯⁠/)), from Phoenician 𐤅 (w /⁠wāw⁠/). Doublet of waw.

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wau n (plural waus, diminutive wautje n)

1. wau (archaic Greek letter)

   Synonym: digamma

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• IPA^(key): /vaʊ̯/

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• Rhymes: -aʊ̯

wau

1. woof (sound of a dog)

   Synonym: wuff

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• Wau n or m
• Wauwau m

From Arabic وَاو (wāw).

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

wau f (possessed form wan)

1. waw (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

From Proto-Polynesian *au, from Proto-Oceanic *(i-)au, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwau̯/, [ˈʋɐw], [ˈʋɔw] (rapid speech)

wau

1. alternative form of au

From Malay wau, from Classical Malay واو (wau), from Thai ว่าว (wâao).

wau (plural wau-wau)

1. kite (flying toy on string)

   Synonym: layang-layang

• “wau” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

wau

1. romanization of ꦮꦲꦸ

• IPA^(key): /wau̯/
• Rhymes: -au̯

From Thai ว่าว (wâao). Cognate with Pattani Malay وا (wa).

wau (Jawi spelling واو, plural wau-wau)

1. kite (flying toy on string)

   Hypernym: layang-layang

• Indonesian: wau

From Arabic وَاو (wāw).

wau (Jawi spelling واو, plural wau-wau)

1. The name of the twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و
2. The name of the thirtieth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in Arabic script: و

• “wau” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from English Oʻahu or Oahu, from Hawaiian Oʻahu, named because the missionaries who introduced the Mother Hubbard dress to the Marshall Islands came from Oʻahu.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [wɑːu], (enunciated) [wɑ wu]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wæɰwiw/
• Bender phonemes: {wahwiw}

wau

1. a Mother Hubbard dress

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

wau

1. alternative form of wawe

Borrowed from Hebrew וו.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwau/ [ˈwau̯]
• Rhymes: -au
• Syllabification: wau

wau m (plural waus)

1. the sound /w/ (labiovelar approximant) or /u̯/ (non-syllabic /u/)

• “wau”, 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