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English

Etymology

Perhaps from the name of the Ford Zephyr automobile, clipping of Zephyr.

Noun

zef (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) A South African counterculture movement associated with the white lower middle class.

Further reading

• zef on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Fez, fez

French

Alternative forms

• zeph, zèf

Etymology

Clipping of zéphyr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?f/

Noun

zef m (uncountable)

1. (France, slang) wind

Further reading

• “zef” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?f/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French nef. Doublet of nave and nau.

Noun

nef (plural nefs)

1. An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.

Synonyms

• cadenas

See also

• navicula

Etymology 2

Short for numerically effective; introduced by Miles Reid.

Adjective

nef (not comparable)

1. (algebraic geometry) Of a line bundle on a complete algebraic variety over a field: such that the degree of its restriction to every algebraic curve in the variety is non-negative.

Derived terms

• nefness

Anagrams

• ENF, fen

French

Etymology

From Middle French nef, from Old French nef, from Latin n?vis, n?vem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh?us. Displaced by bateau and navire in the sense of "boat".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?f/

Noun

nef f (plural nefs)

1. (obsolete or poetic) barque, boat
2. nave

Related terms

• nacelle
• naval
• navire

See also

• barque
• vaisseau

Descendants

• ? Breton: nev

Further reading

• “nef” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse nef, from Proto-Germanic *nabj?. Cognate with English neb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Noun

nef n (genitive singular nefs, nominative plural nef)

1. nose
2. beak

Declension

Derived terms

• taka í nefið (to take snuff)
• fitja upp á nefið (to turn up one's nose)
• með nefið ofan í hvers manns koppi (nosy)
• stökkva upp á nef sér (to flare up, to get angry)
• neflaus
• hafa bein í nefinu

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French neuf.

Numeral

nef

1. nine

Adjective

nef

1. new

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French nef, from Latin n?vis, n?vem.

Noun

nef f (plural nefs or nefz)

1. boat; ship; watercraft

Descendants

• French: nef (obsolete or poetic)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin n?vis, n?vem.

Noun

nef f (oblique plural nés, nominative singular nef, nominative plural nés)

1. boat; ship; watercraft

Related terms

• nacele

Descendants

• Middle French: nef
  • French: nef (obsolete or poetic)

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *nabj?.

Noun

nef n (genitive nefs, plural nef)

1. nose
2. beak

Declension

Descendants

• Danish: næb
• Faroese: nev
• Icelandic: nef

Volapük

Noun

nef (nominative plural nefs)

1. nephew
2. niece

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh new, from Old Welsh nem, from Proto-Brythonic *ne??, from Proto-Celtic *nemos, from Proto-Indo-European *néb?os (“cloud”). Cognate with Breton neñv, Cornish nev and Irish neamh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?v/

Noun

nef f (plural nefoedd, not mutable)

1. heaven

Synonyms

• nen