ناو

نَاوِ • (nāwi) (form III)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of نَاوَى‎ (nāwā)

From Middle Persian nʾw (nāw, “ship”), from Proto-Iranian (compare Ossetian нау (naw) / науӕ (nawæ)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *nāu- (“ship, boat”) (compare Sanskrit नाव (nāva, “ship”)), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”) (compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), Latin nāvis (“ship”), Albanian anije (“ship”)).

• IPA^(key): /nɒːw/
• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [nɒːv]

ناو • (nâv) (plural ناوها‎ (nâv-hâ))

1. (archaic) boat, small ship
   • 11th century, Abulfazl-i Bayhaqī, Tārīx-i Bayhaqī

     […] ناوی ده بیاوردند.‎

     […] nāwē dah biyāwardand.

2. warship; cruiser
3. anything long and hollow
4. pipe
5. gutter, drainpipe, water pipe, downpipe
6. a river, stream; channel, canal, aqueduct; river basin
7. a cistern; tankage
8. trough; feeder
9. the sluice of a mill-dam
10. the furrow or groove down the middle of a man's back or the loins of a horse; also in a grain of wheat and a date-stone
11. gluteal cleft
12. the passage through which the meal or flour runs when grinding
13. a hole
14. a crack, chink
15. a baker's rolling-pin
16. a frying pan
17. a cauldron, kettle, pot
18. an easy, graceful air in walking

• ناوخدا‎ (nâvxodâ), ناخدا‎ (nâxodâ)
• ناوچه‎ (nâvče)
• ناوشکن‎ (nâvšekan)
• ناودان‎ (nâvdân)
• ناوه‎ (nâve)
• ناوک‎ (nâvak)
• نبردناو‎ (nabard-nâv)
• رزم‌ناو‎ (razm-nâv)
• هواناو‎ (havâ-nâv)
• ناو هواپیمابر‎ (nâv-e havâpeymâbar)

• → Armenian: նավ (nav)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ناو‎ (nâv)
• → Udi: наъв (na̱v, “gutter, trough”)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “ناو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul