naf

Clipping of English Nabak with f as a placeholder.

naf

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nabak.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nabak terms

naf (comparative naffer, superlative naffest)

1. Alternative spelling of naff.
   • 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:

     Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.

naf

1. enough, sufficient

Borrowed from Dutch naaf, from English nave, from Middle English nave, from Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel, hub”)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈnaf/ [ˈnaf]
• Rhymes: -af
• Syllabification: naf

naf (plural naf-naf)

1. nave (hub of a wheel)

• “naf”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

naf

1. (Northern) alternative form of nave

• IPA^(key): [ˈnaɸ]?

naf f (plural naues)

1. apocopic form of naue (“ship”)
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 33r:

     Et la eſtrella luzient que es en la popa dela naf a poder ſobreſta piedra ⁊ della recibe la fuerça ⁊ la uertud.

     And the bright star on the stern of the ship has power over this stone, and it receives from it strength and virtue.

• IPA^(key): /naf/

naf (genitive nafa, plural nafs)

1. ship