Noun: praya
| Singular | praya |
| Plural | prayas |
Sample Sentences
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Elsewhere on the Island, facilities for the transport of goods were limited to landing piers and prayas for junks and lighters. [1973, Tzu-nang Chiu, The Port of Hong Kong: A Survey of its Development, page 24:]
Nouns inflected like praya
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese praia (“beach”). Doublet of playa and plage. See: Portuguese Nouns '
praia'.