Editing Proa (section)

==Etymology==
The term "proa" originates from [[Early Modern English]] "prow" or "praw". It probably entered the [[English language]] via [[Dutch language|Dutch]] ''prauw'' and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ''parau'', similar to [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''proa'', meaning "[[bow (ship)|bow]]". It is likely ultimately derived from  [[Malay language|Malay]] ''[[wikt:perahu|perahu]]'' meaning "boat", from the [[Proto-Western-Malayo-Polynesian]] [[doublet (linguistics)|doublets]] *parahu and *padaw, both meaning "sailboat". Its [[cognate]]s in other [[Austronesian languages]] include [[Javanese language|Javanese]] ''prau'', [[Sundanese language|Sundanese]] ''parahu'', [[Kadazan language|Kadazan]] ''padau'', [[Maranao language|Maranao]] ''padaw'', [[Cebuano language|Cebuano]] ''[[paráw]]'', [[Ngadha language|Ngadha]] ''barau'', [[Gilbertese language|Kiribati]] ''[[baurua]]'', [[Samoan language|Samoan]] ''folau'', [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] ''halau'', and [[Māori language|Māori]] ''wharau''.<ref name="Mahdi1999">{{cite book|first1= Waruno|last1=Mahdi|editor1-last =Blench|editor1-first= Roger |editor2-last=Spriggs|editor2-first=Matthew|title =Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts languages, and texts|chapter =The Dispersal of Austronesian boat forms in the Indian Ocean|volume = 34|publisher =Routledge|series =One World Archaeology |year =1999|pages=144–179|isbn =978-0415100540}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |date=2015 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=9780544454453 |edition=5th }}</ref><ref name="blackburn"/>