Other forms: prows
The prow is the pointed front of a ship. Cut through the waves at the prow, stand at the prow, a high prow.
It is the literary word where bow is the working one, and it carries the image of a ship pushing forward. A figurehead sits under the prow, and Viking ships are known by the carved shape of theirs.
1nounprowThe pointed front of a ship.
“The ship's prow cut through the waves as it left the harbour.”
prow is a part.
Latin prora comes from Greek proira, from a root meaning before or in front.
Ancient Greek
πρῷρα
Latin
prōra
lij
prua
Middle French
proue
English, today
prow
From Middle French proue, proe, from lij prua, proa, from Latin prōra, from Ancient Greek πρῷρα.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA