English

Noun

nav ‎(uncountable)

1. (transport, military, Internet) Navigation. Often used attributively, as in nav beacon.

Derived terms

• sat nav

Verb

nav ‎(third-person singular simple present navs, present participle navving, simple past and past participle navved)

1. (informal) to navigate

Anagrams

• AVN, van, Van

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *naw, from Proto-Celtic *nawan, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Numeral

nav

1. (cardinal) nine

See also

• (cardinal number): Previous: eizh. Next: dek

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse nǫf ‎(“nave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nobʰ- ‎(“navel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nav/, [naw], [nawˀ]

Noun

nav n (singular definite navet, plural indefinite nav)

1. nave (a hub of a wheel)

Inflection

Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian (compare Persian نام ‎(nâm), Pashto نوم ‎(nūm), Avestan 𐬥𐬁𐬨𐬀𐬥 ‎(nāman)) from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́man- (compare Sanskrit नामन् ‎(nā́man), Hindi नाम ‎(nām)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ ‎(“name”) (compare Ancient Greek ὄνομα ‎(ónoma), Latin nomen, Tocharian A ñom, Armenian անուն ‎(anun), Danish navn, and English name).

Noun

nav m

1. name

Derived terms

• bênav m
• hevenav m
• komenav m
• kurtenav m
• navdêr f
• pêşnav m
• serenav m

Latvian

Etymology

Reduced form of navaid from nevaid (both still attested in Latvian dialects), originally the negative form of vaid ‎(“to be located, to be”). (G. F. Stenders, in his 1774 grammar, mentions under nevaid the reduced forms neva, nava and even nav' with an apostrophe.) This form replaced an earlier neir, neira (from ir, ira); compare Latvian nėrà. Forms of vaid are occasionally attested in folk tales and songs; A. Bīlenšteins once heard its infinitive form vaist. It was probably an old perfect form, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- ‎(“to see, to know”) (“to see (around, where one is)” > “to find oneself, to be located, to be”); cf. Lithuanian vaidalas ‎(“apparition, ghost”).^[1]

Verb

nav

1. (he, she, it) is not; 3rd person singular present indicative form of nebūt
2. (they) are not; 3rd person plural present indicative form of nebūt
3. (with the particle lai) let (him, her, it) not be; 3rd person singular imperative form of nebūt
4. (with the particle lai) let them not be; 3rd person plural imperative form of būt

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “nav”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Lojban

Rafsi

nav

1. rafsi of nanvi.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Puter) nev

Etymology

From Latin nāvis.

Noun

nav f (plural navs)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) ship

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish navan, cognate with English nave.

Noun

nav n

1. a hub (central part of a wheel)

Declension

Related terms

• navborr
• navkapsel

References

• nav in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• nav in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

==Kashmiri==

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naʋ/, [nau]

Numeral

nav

1. nine