mo

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Abbreviation 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.5 Anagrams 2 Amanab 2.1 Noun 3 Haitian Creole 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 4 Irish 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Pronoun 4.2.1 Related terms 4.3 Usage notes 5 Italian 5.1 Adverb 6 Japanese 6.1 Particle 7 Korean 7.1 Noun 7.1.1 Derived terms 7.1.2 Related terms 8 Lojban 8.1 Cmavo 9 Mandarin 9.1 Pinyin syllable 9.1.1 Usage notes 10 Scottish Gaelic 10.1 Etymology 10.2 Pronoun 10.2.1 Usage notes

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /məʊ/
• (US) enPR: mō, IPA: /moʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

[edit] Etymology 1

Abbreviation of month.

[edit] Abbreviation

mo (plural mos)

1. month

[edit] Etymology 2

Shortening of moment.

[edit] Noun

mo (uncountable)

1. moment

   "Hang on a mo!"

[edit] Etymology 3

Shortening of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

[edit] Noun

mo (plural mos)

1. a homosexual

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: mo
• om, O.M.

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[edit] Amanab

[edit] Noun

mo

1. speech, language, word

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[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology

From French mot (“‘word’”)

[edit] Noun

mo

1. word

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [mˠə]

[edit] Pronoun

mo

1. my
2. me (direct object pronoun before verbal noun)

[edit] Related terms

• m' (form used before a vowel or lenited f)

[edit] Usage notes

1. Triggers lenition of a following noun:

   mo bhád -- my boat

   mo mháthair -- my mother

2. Used before the verbal noun to indicate direct object:

   Tá sé ag mo bhualadh -- He is hitting me

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Adverb

mo

1. Alternative spelling of mo'.

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Particle

mo

1. も: too, also, so

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Noun

mo (hangul: 모)

1. protrusion
2. corner
3. angle
4. aspect

[edit] Derived terms

• nemo (네모) quadrangle, rectangle, square
• semo (세모) triangle

[edit] Related terms

• moseori (모서리) corner
• motung-i (모퉁이) corner

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[edit] Lojban

[edit] Cmavo

mo

1. used as the selbri, the word indicates asking for the selbri.

do mo

What are you? or What are you doing?

le cukta cu mo le karce

How are the book and the car related?

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pinyin syllable

mo (form of mo0 or mo5)

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, mō, mó, mǒ, or mò.
2. 么: interrogative particle; repetition of a tune small; tender
3. 庅: an interrogative particle
4. 麼, 麽: interrogative final particle; insignificant, small, tiny

[edit] Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Etymology

Old Irish mo, mu

[edit] Pronoun

mo

1. my, mine

[edit] Usage notes

• Lenites the following word.

  mo + baile = mo bhaile (my town)

• Takes the form m' before words beginning with a vowel: m' ainm (my name).