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waw

waw

English

Verb

waw (third-person singular simple present waws, present participle wawing, simple past and past participle wawed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To stir; move; wave.

Etymology 2

From Middle English wawe, waȝe, from Old English wǣg (motion, water, wave, billow, flood, sea), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (wave, storm), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵhe- (to drag, carry). Cognate with North Frisian weage (water, wave), German Wag, Woge (wave), French vague (wave), Swedish våg (wave).

Noun

waw (plural waws)

  1. (obsolete, water) A wave.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:
      nigh it drawes / All passengers, that none from it can shift: / For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, / They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes.

Etymology 3

From Middle English wawe, wowe, waugh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (a wall, partition), from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (wall), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (to bend, twist). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.

Alternative forms

Noun

waw (plural waws)

  1. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A wall

Etymology 4

From Arabic وَاو (wāw).

  • Letter of the Arabic alphabet: و

Noun

waw (plural waws)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
  2. Alternative spelling of vav
Translations

Anagrams


Mapudungun

Noun

waw (using Raguileo Alphabet)

  1. A valley.

References

  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Portuguese

Noun

waw m (plural waws)

  1. Alternative spelling of uau

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɔː/

Etymology

Related to Old English waġian (wave, undulate).

Noun

waw (plural waws)

  1. (water) A wave.