nave

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* As an English surname, from the noun knave. * As a German surname Näve, variant of Neff, see Neve. * As a Portuguese surname, from nave (“plain”), borrowed from Spanish nava, compare Nava.

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

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)).

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: anijatë — the middle or body of a church
• Albanian: nef — the middle or body of a church
• Arabic: صَحْن (ṣaḥn) — the middle or body of a church
• Armenian: նավ (nav) — the middle or body of a church
• Basque: habearte — the middle or body of a church
• Belarusian: неф (njef) — the middle or body of a church
• Belarusian: нэф (nef) — the middle or body of a church
• Breton: nev — the middle or body of a church
• Bulgarian: неф (nef) — the middle or body of a church
• Catalan: nau — the middle or body of a church
• Chinese Mandarin: 中殿 (zhōngdiàn) — the middle or body of a church
• Czech: loď — the middle or body of a church
• Danish: skib — the middle or body of a church
• Dutch: schip — the middle or body of a church
• Esperanto: navo — the middle or body of a church
• Estonian: lööv — the middle or body of a church
• Finnish: laiva — the middle or body of a church
• Finnish: päälaiva — the middle or body of a church
• French: nef — the middle or body of a church
• Galician: nave — the middle or body of a church
• Georgian: ნეფი (nepi) — the middle or body of a church
• German: Schiff — the middle or body of a church
• Greek: ναυς (nafs) — the middle or body of a church
• Hebrew: סְפִינָה (sfiná) — the middle or body of a church
• Hungarian: hajó — the middle or body of a church
• Hungarian: templomhajó — the middle or body of a church
• Ido: navo — the middle or body of a church
• Irish: corp na heaglaise — the middle or body of a church
• Irish: meánlann — the middle or body of a church
• Italian: navata — the middle or body of a church
• Japanese: 身廊 (shinrō) — the middle or body of a church
• Korean: 신랑 (sillang) — the middle or body of a church
• Latin: nāvis — the middle or body of a church
• Latvian: ratu rumba — the middle or body of a church
• Lithuanian: nava — the middle or body of a church
• Macedonian: кораб (korab) — the middle or body of a church
• Macedonian: брод (brod) — the middle or body of a church
• Malayalam: ഹൈക്കല (haikkala) — the middle or body of a church
• Norwegian Bokmål: midtskip — the middle or body of a church
• Norwegian Nynorsk: midskip — the middle or body of a church
• Norwegian Nynorsk: midtskip — the middle or body of a church
• Polish: nawa główna — the middle or body of a church
• Polish: nawa — the middle or body of a church
• Portuguese: nave — the middle or body of a church
• Romanian: naos — the middle or body of a church
• Romanian: navă — the middle or body of a church
• Russian: неф (nɛf) — the middle or body of a church
• Russian: кора́бль (koráblʹ) — the middle or body of a church
• Russian: ладья́ (ladʹjá) — the middle or body of a church
• Serbo-Croatian: бро̑д — the middle or body of a church
• Serbo-Croatian: ла̑ђа — the middle or body of a church
• Serbo-Croatian: brȏd — the middle or body of a church
• Serbo-Croatian: lȃđa — the middle or body of a church
• Slovak: loď — the middle or body of a church
• Slovene: ladja — the middle or body of a church
• Spanish: nave — the middle or body of a church
• Swedish: skepp — the middle or body of a church
• Tagalog: nabe — the middle or body of a church
• Turkish: kilise ortası — the middle or body of a church
• Ukrainian: неф (nef) — the middle or body of a church
• Ukrainian: на́ва (náva) — the middle or body of a church
• Welsh: corff — the middle or body of a church