bao

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

English

Alternative forms

• bau

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 包 (bāo) and Cantonese 包 (baau1)

Noun

bao (countable and uncountable, plural baos)

1. Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:dim sum

Translations

Chinese steamed stuffed bun

• Burmese: ပေါက်စီ (my) (paukci)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 包 (baau¹), 包子 (baau¹ zi²)

  Dungan: бозы (bozɨ)

  Mandarin: 包子 (zh) (bāozi)

  Min Nan: 包仔 (zh-min-nan) (pau-á)

• Indonesian: pau, bakpao (id)
• Japanese: 包子 (ja) (paozu), パオズ (paozu), 焼包, シャオパオ, バインバオ
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• Korean: 바오쯔 (baojjeu), 바인 바오 (bain bao)
• Malay: pau
• Mongolian: бууз (mn) (buuz)
• Russian: ба́оцзы pl (báoczy)
• Tagalog: siopao
• Thai: ซาลาเปา (saa-laa-bpao)
• Vietnamese: bánh bao (vi)

See also

• Baozi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Swahili bao.

Noun

bao (uncountable)

1. A mancala board game played in East Africa.

See also

• Bao (mancala game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• A/B/O, ABO, AOB, Abo, OAB, Oba., a.o.b., abo, boa, oba

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaʔoʔ/
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Hyphenation: ba‧o

Noun

bao

1. a tortoise
2. a turtle

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Hiligaynon

Noun

baó

1. tortoise, turtle

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Mandarin

Romanization

bao

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

Usage notes

• 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.

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Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu, *bahuq.

Noun

bao

1. smell
2. scent
3. odour

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Marshallese

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bao

1. bird
2. chicken
3. fowl

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbao/ [ˈba.o]

Noun

bao m (plural baos)

1. bao (Chinese bread)

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Swahili

Noun

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

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Venetian

Noun

bao m (plural bai)

1. worm
2. bug

Derived terms

• baéto

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˧˧]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *pɔː (“sheath”). Sino-Vietnamese word from 包.

Noun

(classifier cái, chiếc) bao

1. bag; sack; pack
2. box; packet

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bao kiếm

 

See also

• bị
• túi

Verb

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

Determiner

bao

1. (literary) so many

   bao người

   people everywhere

   bao ngày

   day after day

See also

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”).

• bao giờ
• bao nhiêu

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Waray-Waray

Noun

baó

1. turtle; tortoise