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

• 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

Anagrams

• aww

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.