waw

Meanings

1. To stir; move; wave.

1. A wave.

1. A wall.

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
2. Alternative spelling of vav.

1. Initialism of write after write, a kind of data hazard.
2. Initialism of writing about writing.

Etymology

From Middle English wawen, waȝien, from Old English wagian (“to move, shake, swing, totter”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagōn, from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with German wagen (“to venture, dare, risk”), Dutch wagen (“to venture, dare, also to move, stir”), Swedish våga (“to dare”).