nave

See also: Nave, näve, nāve, nāvē, and navé

Pronunciation

enPR: nāv, IPA^(key): /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

the middle or body of a church

Albanian: anijatë (sq) f, nef (sq) m
Arabic: صَحْن (ar) m (ṣaḥn)
Armenian: նավ (hy) (nav)
Basque: habearte
Belarusian: неф m (njef), нэф m (nef)
Breton: nev (br) f
Bulgarian: неф m (nef)
Catalan: nau (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 中殿 (zhōngdiàn)
Czech: loď (cs) f
Danish: skib (da) n
Dutch: schip (nl) n
Esperanto: navo (eo)
Estonian: lööv
Finnish: laiva (fi), päälaiva
French: nef (fr) f
Galician: nave (gl) f
Georgian: ნეფი (nepi)
German: Schiff (de) n
Greek: ναυς (el) f (nafs)
Hebrew: סְפִינָה (he) f (sfiná)
Hungarian: hajó (hu), templomhajó (hu)
Ido: navo (io)
Irish: corp na heaglaise m, meánlann f
Italian: navata (it)
Japanese: 身廊 (しんろう, shinrō)
Korean: 신랑(身廊) (ko) (sillang)
Latin: nāvis (la) f
Latvian: ratu rumba f
Lithuanian: nava (lt) f
Macedonian: кораб m (korab), брод (mk) m (brod)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: midtskip n

Nynorsk: midskip n, midtskip n
Polish: nawa główna f, nawa (pl) f
Portuguese: nave (pt) f
Romanian: naos (ro) n, navă (ro) f
Russian: неф (ru) m (nɛf), кора́бль (ru) m (koráblʹ), ладья́ (ru) f (ladʹjá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бро̑д m, ла̑ђа f

Roman: brȏd (sh) m, lȃđa (sh) f
Slovak: loď (sk) f
Slovene: ladja (sl) f
Sogdian: [script needed] (hyklʾ /⁠heykala⁠/)
Spanish: nave (es) f
Swedish: skepp (sv) n
Tagalog: nabe
Turkish: kilise ortası
Ukrainian: неф m (nef), на́ва (uk) f (náva)
Welsh: corff (cy) m

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

hub of a wheel

Bulgarian: глави́на (bg) f (glavína)
Danish: nav (da) n
Dutch: naaf (nl) f
Esperanto: nabo (eo)
Finnish: napa (fi)
French: moyeu (fr) m
German: Nabe (de) f
Greek: αφαλός (el) m (afalós)
Ancient: χνόη f (khnóē), χοινικίς f (khoinikís)
Ido: nabo (io)
Italian: mozzo (it) m
Japanese: 轂 (ja) (こしき, koshiki)
Kazakh: күпшек (küpşek)
Kyrgyz: күпчөк (küpcök)
Middle English: nave
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nav n

Nynorsk: nav n
Ottoman Turkish: پویرا (poyra), دولك (dülek)
Polish: piasta (pl) f
Russian: ступи́ца (ru) f (stupíca), вту́лка (ru) f (vtúlka)
Scottish Gaelic: cìoch f
Swedish: nav (sv) n
Tatar: көпчәк (tt) (köpçäk)
Turkish: poyra (tr), dülek (tr)

Anagrams

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

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Etymology

From Latin nāvis, nāvem.

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

ship
industrial building
Neses naves del polígunu fain planches de fierro vieyo qu'atopen perahi
In those industrial buildings they make plates from old iron that they find around.

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].

Etymology

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

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

ship (watercraft or airship)
(architecture) nave

Related terms

navegar

Noun

nave (plural naves)

ship

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

nave

Wikipedia ^it

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^(key): /ˈna.ve/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ave
Hyphenation: nà‧ve

Noun

nave f (plural navi)

ship

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Descendants

→ Slavomolisano: nava

Anagrams

Neva, vane, vena

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 (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling נאב׳י)^[1]

(nautical) ship
Synonyms: barko, navío, vapor
- (Can we date this quote?), 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

[1]
http://folkmasa.org/milon/yachad2.php?mishtane=nave

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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.

Alternative forms

nawe
naf, naff, naffe (Northern)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnaːv(ə)/
(Northern) IPA^(key): /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.

Pronunciation

(Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈnave/

Verb

nave

inflection of navvit:

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

nave

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈna.ve/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /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”).

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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

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^(key): /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”)

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

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