bao

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See also: Bao and Appendix:Variations of "bao"

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (bāo) or Cantonese 包 (baau1). Cognate of Vietnamese bánh bao.

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Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bao (countable and uncountable, plural baos or bao)

  1. Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine
  2. A sandwich or stuffed bun made with this bread
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Swahili bao.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bao (uncountable)

  1. A mancala board game played in East Africa.
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Anagrams[edit]

Asi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

bao

  1. tortoise; turtle

Cebuano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bao

  1. a tortoise
  2. a turtle

Hiligaynon[edit]

Noun[edit]

baó

  1. tortoise, turtle

Ilocano[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: ba‧ó
  • IPA(key): /baˈʔu/, [bɐˈʔo]

Noun[edit]

baó

  1. mouse

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Mandarin[edit]

Romanization[edit]

bao

  1. Nonstandard spelling of bāo.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of báo.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of bǎo.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of bào.

Usage notes[edit]

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mansaka[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Akin to Maranao bao'o.

Noun[edit]

bao

  1. turtle

Etymology 2[edit]

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu.

Noun[edit]

baò

  1. smell

Marshallese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [pˠɑːɔ], (enunciated) [pˠɑ wɔ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /pˠæɰwɛw/
  • Bender phonemes: {bahwew}

Noun[edit]

bao

  1. bird
  2. chicken
  3. fowl

References[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈbao/ [ˈba.o]
  • Rhymes: -ao
  • Syllabification: ba‧o

Noun[edit]

bao m (plural baos)

  1. bao (Chinese bread)

Further reading[edit]

Swahili[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun[edit]

bao (ma class, plural mabao)

  1. board (piece of wood)
  2. goal
    Synonym: goli
  3. board game
  4. a traditional Swahili mancala board game played in most of East Africa

Tagalog[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: ba‧o
  • IPA(key): /ˈbaʔo/, [ˈba.ʔo]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

bao (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜂ)

  1. coconut shell stripped of its husk and meat
    Synonym: tsireta
  2. (anatomy) cranium
    Synonym: bao ng ulo
  3. (games, obsolete) a game of various chances, done with a coconut shell, and a cane placed crosswise on the ground
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

See balo.

Noun[edit]

bao (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜂ)

  1. Alternative form of balo (“widow; widower”)
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Ternate[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bao

  1. a water current

References[edit]

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Venetian[edit]

Noun[edit]

bao m (plural bai)

  1. worm
  2. bug

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Vietnamese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 包.

Noun[edit]

(classifier cái, chiếc) bao

  1. bag; sack; pack
  2. box; packet
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Verb[edit]

bao

  1. to enclose; to envelope; to cover
  2. to guarantee; to assure
  3. to take on everything; to undertake (the whole of) something as someone's proxy
  4. to treat; to pay (for someone else); to foot the bill; to cover (someone else); to stand
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms

Etymology 2[edit]

Part of the b-series of demonstratives, along with bây, bấy.

Adverb[edit]

bao • (包)

  1. (literary when used stand-alone) how; how much
    Ngàn năm là bao?
    How long is one thousand years really?
  2. (Mekong Delta, colloquial) very; super (placed before an adjective to intensify)
    cam bao ngọt ― super-duper sweet oranges

Determiner[edit]

bao • (包)

  1. (literary) so many
    bao người ― people everywhere
    bao ngày ― day after day
See also[edit]
Vietnamese demonstratives
Laurence Thompson (1965), Vietnamese Grammar
Unspecified Close to the
speaker or
newly introduced		 Remote,
already identified
PLACE
đ- (first register) 		đâu
‘wherever’ 		đây
‘here’ 		đấy
‘there’
REFERENCE
n- (second register) 		nào
‘whichever’ 		này
‘this’ 		nọ
‘that’
PROPORTION
b- (first register) 		bao
‘to whatever extent’ 		bây
‘to this extent’ 		bấy
‘to that extent’
MANNER
s- (first register)
v- (second register) 		sao
‘however’ 		vầy
‘this way’ 		vậy
‘that way’
Nguyễn Phú Phong (1992), “Vietnamese Demonstratives Revisited”
D•
(Indefinite)		 D1
(Proximal)		 D2
(Medial)		 D3
(Distal)
+NOM(inal) đâu
place-what 		đây
place-this 		đấy
place-that1
±NOM(inal) đó
(place-)that1 		kia
(place-)that2
–NOM(inal) nào
what 		nầy
this 		nấy/ấy
that1 		nọ
that2
Vietnamese demonstratives (alternative version)
Proximal
(*-iː) 		Distal 1
(*-iːʔ) 		Distal 2
(*-əːʔ) 		Distal 3/
Remote
(*-ɔːʔ) 		Interrogative
(rime was a rounded
back vowel)
Place, attributive1
n- 		ni
nì
này 		nấy nớ nọ nào
Place, nominal2
đ- 		đây đí
đấy 		— đó đâu
Manner
r- 		ri
rày 		— rứa — ru
sao3
Extent 14
b- 		bây bấy — — bao
Extent 25
v- 		vầy vậy — — —
1 Originally can only follow a nominal (being used attributively), hence nơi này (“this place; here”), nơi nào (“where”) (no longer completely true in the modern language).
2 Can be used on its own/is itself nominal, hence đây (“here”), đâu (“where”).
3 From earlier *C-raːw (where *C is nonspecific consonant).
4 Placed before the head: bây nhiêu (“this much”), bấy nhiêu (“that much”), bao nhiêu (“how much”).
5 Placed after the head: nhanh vầy (“this fast”), nhanh vậy (“that fast/so fast”).

Anagrams[edit]

Waray-Waray[edit]

Noun[edit]

baó

  1. turtle; tortoise
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