# canoa
## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈnoa/ [kaˈno.a]
* Rhymes: -oa
* Hyphenation: ca‧no‧a

### Noun

canoa f (plural canoes)
* canoe (small long and narrow boat)

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kəˈno.ə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kaˈno.a]
* Rhymes: -oa
* Hyphenation: ca‧no‧a

### Noun

canoa f (plural canoes)
* canoe

#### Hypernyms

* piragua

#### Related terms

* canotatge

### Further reading

* “canoa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “canoa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “canoa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “canoa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈnɔa/ [kɑˈnɔ.ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɔa
* Hyphenation: ca‧no‧a

### Noun

canoa f (plural canoas)
* canoe

### Further reading

* “canoa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canoa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈnɔ.a/
* Rhymes: -ɔa
* Hyphenation: ca‧nò‧a

### Noun

canoa f (plural canoe)
* (nautical) canoe
* (sports) canoeing

#### Derived terms

* canoismo
* canoista

### Further reading

* canoa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* coana

## Latin
### Etymology

Spanish canoa

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kaˈnoː.a/, [käˈnoːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kaˈno.a/, [käˈnɔːä]

### Noun

canōa f (genitive canōae); first declension
* (New Latin) canoe
** 1635, loannes Eusebius Nierembergius, Historia Naturae, page 262:Duo Indi conueniebant in canoam, [...](please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1672, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Geographiae et hydrographiae reformatae..., page 508:Canoa, est nauis ex vnica abore excauata...A canoe, is a boat hollowed out from a single tree...
** 1780, Joannes Genesius Sepulveda, Joannis Genesii Sepulvedae cordubensis opera cum edita turn inedita ..., page XXII:[...] ingenti vi canoarum a Mexicanis ceterisque palustribus oppidis contra classem venientibus.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈno.ɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈno.ɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kaˈno.a/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈno.ɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈno.ɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈno(w).ɐ/
* Rhymes: (most dialects) -oɐ, (Southern Brazil) -oa
* Hyphenation: ca‧no‧a

### Noun

canoa f (plural canoas)
* canoe (small long and narrow boat)

#### Descendants

* → Hunsrik: Kanoh

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno *kanowa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈnoa/ [kaˈno.a]
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* Rhymes: -oa
* Syllabification: ca‧no‧a

### Noun

canoa f (plural canoas)
* canoe

#### Derived terms

* canoero
* canotaje

#### Descendants

* → Asturian: canoa
* → Catalan: canoa
* → Dutch: kano
* → English: canoe
** → German: Kanu
** → Irish: canú
* → Middle French: canoe
** French: canoë, canoé
* → Galician: canoa
* → Huichol: canuva
* → Italian: canoa
* → Portuguese: canoa
** → Hunsrik: Kanoh
* → Russian: кано́э (kanóe)
* → San Juan Colorado Mixtec: canuva
* → Tagalog: kanoa
* → Ye'kwana: kanowa

### Further reading

* “canoa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10