proa

proa englanniksi

1. A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail.

2. 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.

3. {{quote-book|en|year=2020|author=Sujit Sivasundaram|title=Waves Across the South|publisher=William Collins|year_published=2021|page=231

4. (alternative form of)

5. prow, bow (gloss)

(ant)

6. a traditional sailing outrigger boat of the Chamorro

7. (alternative spelling of)

8. bow, prow (gloss)

9. (gl-reinteg-verb form of)

10. test, experiment

11. proof

12. bow, prow

13. bow, prow (gloss)

(syn)

14. (infl of)