proa

n. 马来帆船

发音

UK /ˈpɹəʊ.ə/
其它
US /ˈpɹoʊ.ə/

词形变化

proas 复数 proas

别名

prao parao perahu prahu prau prow

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

词源

From Malay perau, a variant of perahu. In some forms via Portuguese parão or Dutch prauw; in some forms assimilated to prow.

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