prao

English

Noun

prao (plural praos)

1. Alternative form of proa

Anagrams

• Paro, proa, rapo, roap

French

Alternative forms

• proa

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian and Portuguese proa, from Malay parau; Compare Indonesian perahu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁa.o/

• Audio:

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Noun

prao m (plural praos)

1. proa

   Cinquante milles peuvent être facilement franchis, soit par des praos malais, soit par de grandes pirogues polynésiennes. (Verne, Île mystérieuse, 1874)

References

• “prao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

• “prao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• proa

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

prao (Cyrillic spelling прао)

1. masculine singular active past participle of prati

Spanish

Adjective

prao (feminine praa, masculine plural praos, feminine plural praas)

1. prao

Noun

prao m (plural praos)

1. prao; proa

Further reading

• “prao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swedish

Etymology

Acronym of praktisk arbetslivsorientering (“familiarization of practical working life”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pra͡ʊ/, /ˈprɑː.ʊ/
• Rhymes: -aʊ

Noun

prao c

1. (education) a program where Swedish and Finnish high school students spend some weeks at a workplace in order to gain knowledge about working life

   Synonym: (Sweden, pre-1980) pryo

   Hypernym: praktik

Declension

Declension of prao

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	prao	praos
	definite	praon	praons
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• praoa

References

• prao in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Anagrams

• apor, ropa