crau

Borrowed from English crawl.

• Rhymes: -aw
• Hyphenation: crau

crau m (uncountable)

1. (Brazil) crawl (swimming style)

   Synonym: (Portugal) crol

Onomatopoeic.

crau

1. caw (sound made by crows)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /kraɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /krai̯/
• Rhymes: -aɨ̯

From Middle Welsh creu, from Proto-Celtic *kruwos, *kruwyos (“enclosure”) (compare Breton krao (“eye of a needle”), kraou (“stable”), Cornish krow (“hut, shed, sty”), Irish cró (“eye socket; enclosure”)), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₁- (“to hide”) (compare Old English hrēodan (“to cover”), Old Church Slavonic крꙑти (kryti, “to hide”)).^[1]

crau m (plural creuau)

1. sty
2. eye socket

From Proto-Brythonic *krow, from Proto-Celtic *krūs, from Proto-Indo-European *kréwh₂s. Cognate with Irish cró, Latin cruor, Ancient Greek κρέας (kréas),^[1] Old English hrǣw (English raw).

crau m or f (uncountable)

1. blood, gore
2. carnage

• creulon (“bloody; cruel”)