Макао

See also: макао

Macedonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maˈkaɔ]

Proper noun

Макао • (Makao) m

1. Macau (a city, special administrative region, and peninsula in China, west of Hong Kong)

Mongolian

Mongolian	Cyrillic
ᠮ‍ᠠ‍ᠺ‍ᠠ‍ᠣ (m‍a‍k‍a‍o)	Макао (Makao)

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Macao, from Chinese 阿媽港／阿妈港, from 阿媽／阿妈 (āmā) + 港 (gǎng), from Hokkien 媽閣 (Má Koh)

Pronunciation

• • IPA^(key): /ˈmakʰɒː/
  • Syllabification: ма‧као

Proper noun

Макао • (Makao)

1. Macau (a city, special administrative region, and peninsula in China, west of Hong Kong)

Alternative forms

• Аомэн

Russian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɐˈkao]

Proper noun

Мака́о • (Makáo) m inan (indeclinable, relational adjective мака́нский)

1. Macau (a city, special administrative region, and peninsula in China, west of Hong Kong)

   Synonyms: Аомы́нь m (Aomýnʹ), Аомэ́нь m (Aomɛ́nʹ)

See also

• Кита́й m (Kitáj)
• кита́йский (kitájskij)

Further reading

• Kuznetsov, Sergey Alexandrovich (1998), “Макао”, in Большой толковый словарь русского языка [Great Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Norint, →ISBN