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Wau

Wau

See also: wau, wa'u, and wau'

English

Alternative forms

  • (a city in South Sudan) Waw, Wow

Proper noun

Wau

  1. A town in Papua New Guinea
  2. A city in South Sudan

wau

wau

See also: Wau, wa'u, and wau'

English

Noun

wau (plural waus)

  1. digamma.

See also

  • Appendix:Greek alphabet
  • Archaic Greek alphabet:
    Previous: epsilon (Ε)
    Next: zeta (Ζ)

German

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aʊ

Interjection

wau

  1. woof (sound of a dog)

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic وَاو (wāw).

Noun

wau m

  1. Arabic letter waw

Hawaiian

Etymology

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.

Pronoun

wau

  1. Alternative form of au

See also


Javanese

Adverb

wau (ngoko mau, Javanese script ꦩꦲꦸ)

  1. (polite) just now; a moment ago