different between vac vs vav

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Noun

vac (plural vacs)

1. (informal) A vacation.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 324:

     It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac.

2. (informal) A vacuum cleaner.
3. (informal) Clipping of vaccine.

Derived terms

• (vacuum cleaner) minivac

Verb

vac (third-person singular simple present vacs, present participle vacking, simple past and past participle vacked)

1. To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
   • 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star (page 332)

     I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.

Anagrams

• ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.

Huave

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Doublet of wacüx.

Noun

vac

1. cow

References

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish vatsa.

Noun

vac

1. belly

English

Alternative forms

• waw
• vau

Etymology

Hebrew ????? (vav)

Noun

vav (plural vavs)

1. The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ??.

Translations

See also

• ?? (w)
• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Anagrams

• VVA

Finnish

Noun

vav

1. vav, waw (sixth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad, twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic script)

Declension

Synonyms

• (Arabic waw): w?w

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vav

1. imperative of vava

Portuguese

Noun

vav m (plural vavs)

1. vav (name of the Hebrew letter ?)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bab/, [?ba??]

Noun

vav f (plural vav)

1. vav; the Hebrew letter ?

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (w?w).

Noun

vav

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ?

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