báo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bao"

Mandarin

Alternative forms

bao — nonstandard

Romanization

báo (bao², Zhuyin ㄅㄠˊ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㼎
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嫑
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瓟
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 窇
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薄
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 雹

Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baːu̯/

Noun

báo f pl

genitive plural of bó

Mutation

Mutation of *báo*
radical	lenition	nasalization
báo	báo pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbáo

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Tày

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ɓaːwᴮ (“unmarried man”). Cognate with Lao ບ່າວ (bāo), Northern Thai ᨷ᩵ᩤ᩠ᩅ, Lü ᦢᦱᧁᧈ (ḃaaw¹), Tai Dam ꪚ꪿ꪱꪫ, Shan မၢဝ်ႇ (màao) or ဝၢဝ်ႇ (wàao), Ahom 𑜉𑜨𑜧 (mow) or 𑜉𑜨𑜧𑜈𑜫 (moww), Zhuang mbauq, Thai บ่าว (bàao).

Pronunciation

(Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaːw˧˥]
(Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaːw˦]

Noun

báo (𪽕)

boy
báo ké ― bachelor (literally, “old boy”)

báo đai ― chaste

nhằng báo ― unmarried man

báo quan luông ― big mandarin

Adjective

báo (𪽕)

male
lục báo ― boy (roughly more than 15 years old)

đây báo ― handsome
beautiful; elegant
cần báo ― handsome person

Derived terms

References

Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[3] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[4] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˨˩˦]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˦˥]
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 豹 (“leopard”). Doublet of beo.

Noun

(classifier con) báo

leopard
(by extension) spotted panther; a jaguar or a snow leopard
(by extension) cheetah

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 報 (“to report; to tell”).

Verb

báo

to report; to tell

Derived terms

Noun

(classifier tờ) báo

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 報 (“to repay; to thank”). The noun sense is a further development from the verbal shortening of báo hại.

Verb

báo

to repay someone;
(informal) short for báo hại (“to harm someone unintentionally; to cause trouble for someone”)

Derived terms

Noun

(classifier chú) báo

(colloquial) someone who has the tendency to get themselves into troubles and spreads those troubles to others by association

Derived terms

báo thủ