waw

waw

See also: WAW

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

Etymology 1

From Middle English wawen, waȝien, from Old English en wagian (“to move, shake, swing, totter”), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵhe- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with German wagen (“to venture, dare, risk”), Dutch wagen (“to venture, dare, also to move, stir”), Swedish våga (“to dare”).

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, waghe, 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”).

Alternative forms

• wawe

Noun

waw (plural waws)

1. (obsolete, water) A wave.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto 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

• wo
• waugh (Scotland)

Noun

waw (plural waws)

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

Etymology 4

From Arabic وَاو‎ (wāw).

• Letter of the Arabic alphabet: و
  • Last: ه‎
  • Next: ي‎

Noun

waw (plural waws)

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

Translations

Arabic letter

Arabic: وَاو‎ m (wāw) Azerbaijani: vau Finnish: vav (fi) Gujarati: વાવ m (vāv) Hebrew: וי״ו‎ m or f (vav) Hindi: वाव (vāv) Italian: vau m or f

Malay: wau Persian: واو‎ (fa) (vâv) Russian: вав m (vav) Tajik: вов (vov) Turkish: vav (tr) Urdu: واو‎‎ (vāv)

Anagrams

• aww

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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.

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Middle English

Noun

waw

1. Alternative form of wawe

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Portuguese

Noun

waw m (plural waws)

1. Alternative spelling of uau

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Scots

Etymology

From Old English wagian (“wave, undulate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɔː/

Noun

waw (plural waws)

1. (water) wave