# vau
## Translingual
### Symbol

vau
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Vanuma.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Vanuma terms

## English
### Noun

vau (plural vaus)
* Alternative spelling of vav

### Anagrams

* AUV, Uva, UAV, UV-A, UVA, UV A, uva

## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* vàreu

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈbaw]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvaw]
* Rhymes: -aw

### Verb

vau
* (auxiliary, with infinitive) second-person plural present indicative of anar

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋɑu̯/, [ˈʋɑ̝u̯]
* Rhymes: -ɑu
* Hyphenation: vau

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English wow. Probably originally slang; used at least since the 1970s.

#### Interjection

vau (informal)
* wow

##### Derived terms

* vautsi

##### See also

* vautsi

#### Further reading

* “vau”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

#### Interjection

vau
* (often repeated) Synonym of hau (“bark, woof”)

### Anagrams

* avu

## Hungarian
### Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɒu]
* Hyphenation: vau
* Rhymes: -u

### Interjection

vau
* woof (the sound a dog makes while barking)

### See also

* ugat

## Italian
### Etymology

From Hebrew וָו (waw).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvaw/
* Rhymes: -aw
* Hyphenation: vàu

### Noun

vau m or f (invariable)
* waw, specifically:
** the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤅
** the name of the Hebrew-script letter ו

### Anagrams

* uva

## Latin
### Etymology

From Borrowed from Ancient Greek *ϝαῦ (*waû).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /u̯au̯/, [u̯äu̯]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /vau̯/, [väːu̯]

### Noun

vau n (indeclinable)
* wau; digamma (Ϝ)

### References

* vau in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Latvian
### Etymology

Apparently of onomatopoeic (imitative) origin.

### Pronunciation

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### Interjection

vau
* woof (the sound a dog makes while barking)
    vau, vau! Krančelis kaukdams kliedza ― woof! woof! Krančelis (= dog) cried, howling

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vao, from Latin vadum (“ford”), from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvaw/ [ˈvaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvaw/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvaw/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈbaw/
* Rhymes: -aw
* Hyphenation: vau

### Noun

vau m (plural vaus)
* ford (location where a river is shallow enough to be crossed by foot)
* shoal

#### Synonyms

* (shoal, sandbank): parcel, vado, baixo, baixio, esparcel, restinga, sirte

#### Related terms

* vadear
* vadeoso
* vadoso

### References

* ↑ “vau”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “vau”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Tahitian
### Pronoun

vau
* I, me