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Yes. The word nave is a Scrabble US word. The word nave is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word nave is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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4-letter words (3 found)

NAVE,VANE,VENA,

3-letter words (7 found)

ANE,AVE,EAN,NAE,NAV,VAE,VAN,

2-letter words (6 found)

AE,AN,EA,EN,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from nave according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of nave

nave anve nvae vnae avne vane naev anev neav enav aenv eanv nvea vnea neva enva vena evna aven vaen aevn eavn vean evan

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word nave. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in nave.

Definitions and meaning of nave

nave

Pronunciation

  • enPR: nāv, IPA(key): /neɪv/
  • Rhymes: -eɪv
  • Homophone: knave

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin nāvem, singular accusative of nāvis, possibly via a Romance source. Doublet of nef and nau.

Noun

nave (plural naves)

  1. (architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
  2. (architecture) The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.
Derived terms
  • double-nave
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English nave, from Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō (compare Dutch naaf, German Nabe, Swedish nav), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel, hub”) (compare Latin umbō (“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit नभ्य (nabhya)).

Noun

nave (plural naves)

  1. A hub of a wheel.
  2. (obsolete) The navel.
Related terms
  • navel
Translations

Further reading

  • nave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Aven, Evan, Neva, Vena, aven, neva, vane

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin nāvis, nāvem.

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

  1. ship
  2. industrial building

Aulua

Noun

nave

  1. water
    • (Can we date this quote?) Martin Pavior-Smith, Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (nave):

Further reading

  • Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976) (na-βʷe); ABVD 1 (na-fe), 2 (na-ve), 3 (na-ve)

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nave, from Latin nāvis, nāvem.

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

  1. ship (watercraft or airship)
  2. (architecture) nave

Related terms

  • navegar

Interlingua

Noun

nave (plural naves)

  1. ship

Italian

Etymology

From Latin nāvem, from Proto-Italic *naus ~ *nāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us, derived from the root *(s)neh₂- (“to swim, float”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈna.ve/
  • Rhymes: -ave
  • Hyphenation: nà‧ve

Noun

nave f (plural navi)

  1. ship

Derived terms

Related terms

  • nausea
  • nautica
  • navale
  • navigare
  • naviglio

Descendants

  • → Slavomolisano: nava

Anagrams

  • Neva, vane, vena

Latin

Noun

nāve

  1. ablative singular of navis

References

  • “nave”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “nave”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • nawe
  • naf, naff, naffe (Northern)

Etymology

From Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnaːv(ə)/
  • (Northern) IPA(key): /naf/

Noun

nave (plural naves)

  1. nave (hub of a wheel)

Related terms

  • nauger
  • navel

Descendants

  • English: nave
  • Scots: naff

References

  • “nāve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈnave/

Verb

nave

  1. inflection of navvit:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. imperative connegative

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nave, from Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Doublet of nau.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
  • Hyphenation: na‧ve

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

  1. ship
    Synonyms: barco, navio
  2. (architecture) nave, aisle
  3. (Brazil, slang) car

Derived terms

  • astronave

Related terms

  • naval
  • navegar
  • navio

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse hnefi.

Noun

nave (plural naves)

  1. (Orkney) a clenched fist or a handful
    ah'll cheust tak a nave-fil ― I'll just take a handful
    He wis rorrin' and shaftin' his nave ― he was shouting and shaking his fist

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish naf, naue, from Latin nāvem, nāvis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Cognate with English nave, navigate, and navy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnabe/ [ˈna.β̞e]
  • Rhymes: -abe
  • Syllabification: na‧ve

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

  1. ship, vessel (with a concave hull)
    Synonyms: bajel, barco, buque, navío, nao
  2. craft, spaceship, spacecraft (ellipsis of nave espacial), starship (ellipsis of nave estelar)
  3. (architecture, religion) nave, aisle

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “nave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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