proa
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Danh từ
nounPlural noun:
proasparaoperahuprahuprauprow
- 1.
A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail.
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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt 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.
Nguồn gốc từ
From perau, a variant of perahu. In some forms via Portuguese parão or Dutch prauw; in some forms assimilated to prow.