vau

Abbreviation of English Vanuma.

vau

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vanuma terms

vau (plural vaus)

1. Alternative spelling of vav.

• AUV, Uva, UAV, UV-A, UVA, UV A, uva

• vàreu

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbaw]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvaw]
• Rhymes: -aw

vau

1. (auxiliary, with infinitive) second-person plural present indicative of anar used to form periphrastic past

   Vau arribar tard. ― You arrived late.

From Proto-Central Pacific *vau, from Proto-Oceanic *paʀu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian [Term?], from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *baʀu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀu. Cognates include Rotuman hau and Tongan fau.

vau

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

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), “vau”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎^[1], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 295
• M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (2008), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎^[2], volume 3: Plants, Australian National University, →ISBN, page 139
• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fau.a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑu̯/, [ˈʋɑ̝u̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑu
• Syllabification^(key): vau
• Hyphenation^(key): vau

Borrowed from English wow. Probably originally slang; used at least since the 1970s.

vau (informal)

1. wow

• vautsi

• “vau”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Onomatopoeic

vau

1. (often repeated) synonym of hau (“bark, woof”)

• avu

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vau m (plural vaux)

1. A temporary structure used for building arches.

An onomatopoeia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒu]
• Hyphenation: vau
• Rhymes: -u

vau

1. woof (the sound a dog makes while barking)

• ugat

From Hebrew וָו (waw).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaw/
• Rhymes: -aw
• Hyphenation: vàu

vau m or f (invariable)

1. waw, specifically:
   1. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤅
   2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter ו

• uva

Borrowed from Ancient Greek *ϝαῦ (*waû).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwau̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaːu̯]

vau n (indeclinable)

1. wau; digamma (Ϝ)

• “vau”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Apparently of onomatopoeic (imitative) origin.

vau

1. woof (the sound a dog makes while barking)

   vau, vau! Krančelis kaukdams kliedza ― woof! woof! Krančelis (= dog) cried, howling

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vao, from Latin vadum (“ford”),^[1][2] from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-.

• Rhymes: -aw
• Hyphenation: vau

vau m (plural vaus)

1. ford (location where a river is shallow enough to be crossed by foot)
2. shoal

• (shoal, sandbank): parcel, vado, baixo, baixio, esparcel, restinga, sirte

• “vau”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

vau

1. I, me