different between vau vs vac

English

Noun

vau (plural vaus)

1. Alternative spelling of vav

Anagrams

• AUV, UAV, UVA, uva

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aw

Verb

vau

1. (auxiliary verb, taking an infinitive) second-person plural indicative form of anar

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???u?/, [???u?]
• Rhymes: -?u
• Syllabification: vau

Interjection

vau

1. wow!

See also

• vautsi

Anagrams

• avu

Hungarian

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?u]
• Hyphenation: vau
• Rhymes: -u

Interjection

vau

1. woof (the sound a dog makes while barking)

See also

• ugat

Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew ???? (waw).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vau?/, [väu?]
• Hyphenation: vàu

Noun

vau m or f (invariable)

1. waw, specifically:
   1. The name of the Phoenician-script letter ????
   2. The name of the Hebrew-script letter ?

Latvian

Etymology

Apparently of onomatopoeic (imitative) origin.

Pronunciation

Interjection

vau

1. woof (the sound a dog makes while barking)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese vao, from Latin vadum (“ford”), from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh?d?óm, from *weh?d?-.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: vau
• Rhymes: -aw

Noun

vau m (plural vaus)

1. ford (location where a river is shallow enough to be crossed by foot)
2. shoal

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• vadear
• vadoso

Tahitian

Pronoun

vau

1. I, me

See also

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