wau

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ϝαῦ (waû).

wau (plural waus)

1. Digamma (Ϝ/ϝ).

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wau

1. garden

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

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• Rhymes: -aʊ̯

wau

1. woof (sound of a dog)

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.

wau

1. Alternative form of au

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

wau (plural wau-wau, first-person possessive wauku, second-person possessive waumu, third-person possessive waunya)

1. kite (flying toy on string)

   Synonym: layang-layang

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

wau (Kawi)

1. just now; a moment ago

• IPA^(key): /wau̯/
• Rhymes: -au̯

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

wau (Jawi spelling واو‎, plural wau-wau, informal 1st possessive wauku, 2nd possessive waumu, 3rd possessive waunya)

1. kite (flying toy on string)

   Hypernym: layang-layang

• Indonesian: wau

From Arabic وَاو‎ (wāw).

wau (Jawi spelling واو‎, plural wau-wau, informal 1st possessive wauku, 2nd possessive waumu, 3rd possessive waunya)

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

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014