# nave
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: nāv, IPA: /neɪv/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪv
* Homophone: knave

### Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin nāvem, singular accusative of nāvis, possibly via a Romance source. Doublet of nef and nau.

#### Noun

nave (plural naves)
* (architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
* (architecture) The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.

##### Derived terms

* double-nave

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English nave, from Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō (compare Dutch naaf, German Nabe, Swedish nav), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel, hub”) (compare Latin umbō (“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit नभ्य (nabhya)).

#### Noun

nave (plural naves)
* A hub of a wheel.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods, In general synod take away her power; Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven […]
* (obsolete) The navel.
** c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:Till he faced the slave; / Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fix'd his head upon our battlements

##### Related terms

* navel

##### Translations
### Further reading

* nave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* e-van, Neva, Vane, neva, vane, Evan, Aven, aven, Vena, vena

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin nāvis, nāvem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnabe/ [ˈna.β̞e]
* Rhymes: -abe
* Syllabification: na‧ve

### Noun

nave f (plural naves)
* ship
* industrial building
    Neses naves del polígunu fain planches de fierro vieyo qu'atopen perahiIn those industrial buildings they make plates from old iron that they find around.

## Aulua
### Noun

nave
* water
** (Can we date this quote?) Martin Pavior-Smith, Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (nave):
    Nave ibtavov ben.The water went [=was swept] out [of the house].

### Further reading

* Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976) (na-βʷe); ABVD 1 (na-fe), 2 (na-ve), 3 (na-ve)

## Galician
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nave, from Latin nāvis, nāvem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnabe/ [ˈna.β̞ɪ]
* Rhymes: -abe
* Hyphenation: na‧ve

### Noun

nave f (plural naves)
* ship (watercraft or airship)
* (architecture) nave

#### Related terms

* navegar

### Further reading

* “nave”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “nave” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Interlingua
### Noun

nave (plural naves)
* ship

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin nāvem, from Proto-Italic *naus ~ *nāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us, derived from the root *(s)neh₂- (“to swim, float”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈna.ve/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ave
* Hyphenation: nà‧ve

### Noun

nave f (plural navi)
* ship

#### Derived terms

* nave ammiraglia
* nave costiera
* nave scuola
* navicella

#### Related terms

* nausea
* nautica
* navale
* navigare
* naviglio

#### Descendants

* → Slavomolisano: nava

### Anagrams

* Neva, vane, vena

## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish naf, naue, from Latin nāvem, nāvis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Cognate with English nave, navigate, and navy.

### Noun

nave f (Hebrew spelling נאב׳י)
* (nautical) ship (a water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat)
    Synonyms: barko, navío, vapor
** 19th century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, translated by Isaac Jerusalmi, edited by Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎, Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 276:I ala onze [6 AM], ala turka, vinyeron en grande akompanyamyento delos askyeres turkos adelantre i detras, kompanyas de soldados de kada nasyon ke fueron dezbarkados delas naves, djunto todos los viche-amirales i komandantes, i ofisyeres de kada nave ke se topo en muestro porto.And at eleven [6 A.M.], a great escort of Turkish soldiers came ahead of and behind the Turk; companies of soldiers from every nation disembarked from the ships, together with all the vice-admirals, commanders, and officers from every ship found in our port.

### References

* ↑ “nave”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Latin
### Noun

nāve
* ablative singular of navis

### References

* “nave”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “nave”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* nave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* nawe
* naf, naff, naffe (Northern)

### Etymology

From Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnaːv(ə)/
* (Northern) IPA: /naf/

### Noun

nave (plural naves)
* nave (hub of a wheel)

#### Related terms

* nauger
* navel

#### Descendants

* English: nave
* Scots: naff

#### References

* “nāve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈnave/

### Verb

nave
* inflection of navvit:
** present indicative connegative
** second-person singular imperative
** imperative connegative

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nave, from Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Doublet of nau.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈna.vi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈna.vi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈna.ve/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈna.vɨ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈna.vɨ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈna.bɨ/ [ˈna.βɨ]
* Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
* Hyphenation: na‧ve

### Noun

nave f (plural naves)
* ship
    Synonyms: barco, navio
* (architecture) nave, aisle
* (Brazil, slang) car
* (colloquial, usually in science fiction) Ellipsis of nave espacial (“spaceship”).

#### Related terms

* astronave
* espaçonave
* naval
* nave espacial
* navegar
* navio

## Scots
### Etymology

From Old Norse hnefi.

### Noun

nave (plural naves)
* (Orkney) a clenched fist or a handful
    ah'll cheust tak a nave-fil ― I'll just take a handful
    He wis rorrin' and shaftin' his nave ― he was shouting and shaking his fist

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish naf, naue, from Latin nāvem, nāvis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Cognate with English nave, navigate, and navy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnabe/ [ˈna.β̞e]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -abe
* Syllabification: na‧ve

### Noun

nave f (plural naves)
* ship, vessel (with a concave hull)
    Synonyms: bajel, barco, buque, navío, nao
* craft, spaceship, spacecraft (ellipsis of nave espacial), starship (ellipsis of nave estelar)
* (architecture, religion) nave, aisle

#### Hyponyms

* aeronave
* astronave
* cosmonave
* nave de carga (“space cargo ship, space freighter”)
* nave espacial
* nave estelar
* nave nodriza (“mothership”)

#### Derived terms

* cocina de la nave (“galley”)
* nave industrial (“industrial building, industrial unit”)
* quemar las naves

#### Related terms

* naval
* navegación
* navegar
* navigar
* navío

### Further reading

* “nave”, 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