# ناو
## Arabic
### Verb

نَاوِ • (nāwi) (form III) /naː.wi/
* second-person masculine singular imperative of نَاوَى (nāwā)

## Central Kurdish
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naːu̯/

### Noun

| Northern Kurdish | nav |
ناو (naw)
* name

#### Derived terms

* بێناو (bênaw)

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

IPA: [næːw]

### Interjection

ناو • (nāw)
* meow

#### Derived terms

* ناوناو (nawnaw, “to meow”)

## Kashmiri
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɑːʋ/

### Etymology 1

From Sanskrit नामन् (nāman, “name”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

#### Noun

ناو • (nāv) m (plural ناو, Devanagari नाव)
* name
    مےٚ روٗد نٕہ تٔمؠ سُنٛد ناو وَنِہme rūd nụh tạm' sund nāv vanihI couldn’t remember his name

### Etymology 2

From Sanskrit नावा (nāvā). Also influenced by Classical Persian ناو (nāv).

#### Noun

ناو • (nāv) f (plural ناوِ, Devanagari नाव)
* boat
    ناوِ چھےٚ سَرَس پؠٹھ پَکان ― nāvi che saras pyaṭh pakān ― Boats travel on the lake

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ناو (nâv, “anything long and hollow”).

### Noun

ناو • (nav)
* pipe, tube, anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape
    Synonyms: بورو (boru), لوله (lüle)
* drainpipe, a pipe that carries fluid which is being drained
* gutter, drain, a channel intended for the drainage of water
    Synonym: اولق (oluk)
* boat, a watercraft, smaller than a ship, used for various purposes
    Synonym: قایق (kayık)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: nav

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nav”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3499
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “nâv”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 970
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ناو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5120
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ناو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2068

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian nʾw (nāw, “ship”), from Old Persian 𐎴𐎠𐎺 (n-a-v /⁠nāva⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *náHuš (compare Ossetian нау (naw) / науӕ (nawæ)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *náHuš (compare Sanskrit नाव (nāva)), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs), Latin nāvis).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [nɑːw]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [nɑːw]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [nɑːw]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [nɑːw]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [näw]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [nɒːv]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [nɔw]

### Noun

ناو • (nâv) (plural ناوها (nâv-hâ))
* (archaic) boat, small ship
** 11th century, Abulfazl-i Bayhaqī, Tārīx-i Bayhaqī
    […] ناوی ده بیاوردند. […] nâvê dah biyâvardand.[...] they brought ten boats.
* warship; cruiser
* anything long and hollow
* pipe
* gutter, drainpipe, water pipe, downpipe
* a river, stream; channel, canal, aqueduct; river basin
* a cistern; tankage
* trough; feeder
* the sluice of a mill-dam
* the furrow or groove down the middle of a man's back or the loins of a horse; also in a grain of wheat and a date-stone
* gluteal cleft
* the passage through which the meal or flour runs when grinding
* a hole
* a crack, chink
* a baker's rolling-pin
* a frying pan
* a cauldron, kettle, pot
* an easy, graceful air in walking

#### Derived terms

* ناوخدا (nâvxodâ), ناخدا (nâxodâ)
* ناوچه (nâvče)
* ناوشکن (nâvšekan)
* ناودان (nâvdân)
* ناوه (nâve)
* ناوک (nâvak)
* نبردناو (nabard-nâv)
* رزم‌ناو (razm-nâv)
* هواناو (havâ-nâv)
* ناو هواپیمابر (nâv-e havâpeymâbar)

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: նավ (nav)
* → Azerbaijani: nov
* → Ottoman Turkish: ناو (nav)
** Turkish: nav
* → Udi: наъв (na̱v, “gutter, trough”)

#### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “ناو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul