nave

See also:Nave,näve,nāve,nāvē,andnavé

English

Thenaveof a church in Ellmau, Austria

Pronunciation

• enPR:nāv,IPA^(key):/neɪv/

  • Audio(Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes:-eɪv
• Homophone:knave

Etymology 1

Ultimately fromLatinnāvem,singular accusative ofnāvis,possibly via a Romance source.Doubletofnefandnau.

Noun

nave(pluralnaves)

1. (architecture)The middle or body of achurch,extending from thetranseptsto the principal entrances.
   • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell,chapter V, inThe 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 thenaveto the western door.[…]At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

2. (architecture)The ground-level middle cavity of abarn.

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:нефm(njef),нэфm(nef)
• Breton:nev(br)f
• Bulgarian:нефm(nef)
• Catalan:nau(ca)f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Trung điện(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 heaglaisem,meánlannf
• Italian:navata(it)
• Japanese:Thân hành lang(しんろう, shinrō)
• Korean:신랑( thân hành lang )(ko)(sillang)
• Latin:nāvis(la)f
• Latvian:ratu rumbaf
• Lithuanian:nava(lt)f
• Macedonian:корабm(korab),брод(mk)m(brod)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:midtskipn

  Nynorsk:midskipn,midtskipn

• Polish:nawa głównaf,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:бро̑дm,ла̑ђаf

  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:нефm(nef),на́ва(uk)f(náva)
• Welsh:corff(cy)m

Etymology 2

FromMiddle Englishnave,fromOld Englishnafu,fromProto-West Germanic*nabu,fromProto-Germanic*nabō(compareDutchnaaf,GermanNabe,Swedishnav), fromProto-Indo-European*h₃nebʰ-(“navel, hub”)(compareLatinumbō(“shield Boss”),Latviannaba,Sanskritनभ्य(nabhya)).

Wheel showingnaveat centre

Noun

nave(pluralnaves)

1. Ahubof awheel.
   • c.1599–1602(date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→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 roundnavedown the hill of heaven[…]

2. (obsolete)Thenavel.
   • c.1606(date written),William Shakespeare,“The Tragedie of Macbeth”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→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 thenaveto 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:χνόηf(khnóē),χοινικίςf(khoinikís)

• Ido:nabo(io)
• Italian:mozzo(it)m
• Japanese:Cốc(ja)(こしき, koshiki)
• Kazakh:күпшек(küpşek)
• Kyrgyz:күпчөк(küpcök)
• Middle English:nave
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:navn

  Nynorsk:navn

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

Further reading

• naveon Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Asturian

Etymology

FromLatinnāvis, nāvem.

Noun

navef(pluralnaves)

1. ship
2. industrialbuilding

   Nesesnavesdel polígunu fain planches de fierro vieyo qu'atopen perahi

   In those industrial buildings they make plates from old iron that they find around.

Aulua

Noun

nave

1. water
   • (Can wedatethis 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].

Further reading

• Darrell T. Tryon,New Hebrides languages: an internal classification(1976) (na-βʷe);ABVD 1(na-fe),2(na-ve),3(na-ve)

Galician

Etymology

InheritedfromOld Galician-Portuguesenave,fromLatinnāvis, nāvem.

Noun

navef(pluralnaves)

1. ship(watercraft or airship)
2. (architecture)nave

Related terms

• navegar

Interlingua

Noun

nave(pluralnaves)

1. ship

Italian

Etymology

FromLatinnāvem,fromProto-Italic*naus ~ *nāwis,fromProto-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

navef(pluralnavi)

1. ship

Derived terms

• nave ammiraglia
• nave costiera
• nave scuola
• navicella

Related terms

• nausea
• nautica
• navale
• navigare
• naviglio

Descendants

• →Slavomolisano:nava

Anagrams

• Neva,vane,vena

Latin

Noun

nāve

1. ablativesingularofnavis

References

• “nave”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nave”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
• naveinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• nawe
• naf,naff,naffe(Northern)

Etymology

FromOld Englishnafu,fromProto-West Germanic*nabu,fromProto-Germanic*nabō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈnaːv(ə)/
• (Northern)IPA^(key):/naf/

Noun

nave(pluralnaves)

1. nave(hub of a wheel)

Related terms

• nauger
• navel

Descendants

• English:nave
• Scots:naff

References

• “nāve,n.”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino)IPA^(key):/ˈnave/

Verb

nave

1. inflection ofnavvit:
   1. presentindicativeconnegative
   2. second-personsingularimperative
   3. imperativeconnegative

Portuguese

Etymology

InheritedfromOld Galician-Portuguesenave,fromLatinnāvis,ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*néh₂us.Doubletofnau.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil)IPA^(key):/ˈna.vi/

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

• (Portugal)IPA^(key):/ˈna.vɨ/

• (Portugal)IPA^(key):/ˈna.vɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal)IPA^(key):/ˈna.bɨ/[ˈna.βɨ]

• Rhymes:-avi,-avɨ
• Hyphenation:na‧ve

Noun

navef(pluralnaves)

1. ship

   Synonyms:barco,navio

2. (architecture)nave,aisle
3. (Brazil,slang)car
4. (colloquial,usually inscience fiction)Ellipsisofnave espacial(“spaceship”).

Related terms

• astronave
• espaçonave
• naval
• nave espacial
• navegar
• navio

Scots

Etymology

FromOld Norsehnefi.

Noun

nave(pluralnaves)

1. (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' hisnave―he was shouting and shaking his fist

Spanish

Etymology

InheritedfromOld Spanishnaf,naue,fromLatinnāvem, nāvis,fromProto-Indo-European*néh₂us.Cognate withEnglishnave,navigate,andnavy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈnabe/[ˈna.β̞e]

• Audio(Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-abe
• Syllabification:na‧ve

Noun

navef(pluralnaves)

1. ship,vessel(with a concave hull)

   Synonyms:bajel,barco,buque,navío,nao

2. craft,spaceship,spacecraft(ellipsisofnave espacial),starship(ellipsisofnave estelar)
3. (architecture,religion)nave,aisle

Hyponyms

• aeronave
• astronave
• cosmonave
• nave de carga(“space cargo ship, space freighter”)
• nave espacial
• nave estelar
• nave nodriza(“mothership”)

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• naval
• navegación
• navegar
• navigar
• navío

Further reading

• “nave”,inDiccionario de la lengua española(in Spanish), online version 23.7,Royal Spanish Academy,2023 November 28