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perahu

/ˈpɹɑː.huː/

perahu is the alternative form of proa.

Meaning of proa

Noun

proa (plural proas)

  1. A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail.
    • I noticed that on the sea were numerous fantastically shaped canoes—or rather boats—like Malay proas, or the canoes used by many of the South Sea islanders.1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXII...

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Forms of perahu

pluralperahus

Words that rhyme with perahu

Questions about perahu

What is perahu the alternative form of?
Perahu is the alternative form of proa.
How do you pronounce perahu?
Perahu is pronounced /ˈpɹɑː.huː/.

Words near perahu in the dictionary

  1. peragrate
  2. peragration
  3. peragrations
  4. perahera
  5. peraheras
  6. perahu
  7. perahus
  8. perai
  9. peraia
  10. Peraino
  11. Perainos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perahu (page history and authors); proa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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