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prau

prau 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 prau

pluralpraus

Questions about prau

What is prau the alternative form of?
Prau is the alternative form of proa.

Words near prau in the dictionary

  1. pratyekabuddhas
  2. pratylenchid
  3. pratylenchids
  4. Pratyush
  5. pratītyasamutpāda
  6. prau
  7. praught
  8. praunce
  9. praunced
  10. prauncer
  11. prauncers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prau (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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