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bao

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

English

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Etymology 1

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

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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

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From Swahili bao.

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bao (uncountable)

  1. A mancala board game played in East Africa.
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Asi

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Etymology

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From Proto-Philippine *baququ. Compare Cebuano bao, Hiligaynon bao, Maranao bao'o and Tausug bauu

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bao

  1. tortoise; turtle

Cebuano

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From Proto-Philippine *baququ. Compare Hiligaynon bao, Maranao bao'o and Tausug bauu

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Noun

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bao

  1. a tortoise
  2. a turtle
  3. (vehicles, automotive, slang) Volkswagen Beetle

Hiligaynon

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baó

  1. tortoise, turtle
  2. (vehicles, automotive, slang) Volkswagen Beetle

Ilocano

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balabaw. Compare Cebuano ambaw, Higaonon ambaw, Mansaka ambaw, Tagakaulu Kalagan ambaw, Tausug ambaw, Tiruray ambaw and Makasar balao

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

Noun

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baó

  1. mouse

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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bao

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

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  • 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

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Etymology 1

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Akin to Maranao bao'o.

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bao

  1. turtle

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu.

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baò

  1. smell

Marshallese

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

Noun

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bao

  1. bird
  2. chicken
  3. fowl

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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bao m (plural baos)

  1. bao (Chinese bread)

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Sundanese

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bao

  1. great-great-grandparents
  2. great-great-grandchild

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Swahili

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

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Noun

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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

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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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
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Etymology 2

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From elision of /l/ from earlier balo. See more at balo.

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bao (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜂ)

  1. Alternative form of balo (“widow; widower”)
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Further reading

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  • “bao”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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Tày

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Noun

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bao

  1. garcinia multiflora
    mác bao ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    dầu mác bao ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. indian lettuce
    Synonym: mước
    slắc bao đeng ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    slắc bao khao ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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References

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  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎[3] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Ternate

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bao

  1. a water current

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

Venetan

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Noun

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bao m (plural bai)

  1. worm
  2. bug

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Vietnamese

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Etymology 1

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 包.

Noun

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(classifier cái, chiếc) bao

  1. bag; sack; pack
  2. box; packet
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  • → Khmer: បាវ (baaw)
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Verb

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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
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Etymology 2

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

Adverb

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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

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bao • (包)

  1. (literary) so many
    bao người ― people everywhere
    bao ngày ― day after day
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Vietnamese demonstratives
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/nầy
nây 		nấy nớ nọ
(nó) 		nào
Place, nominal2
đ- 		đây đấy
(ấy) 		— 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”).
Visibility/evidentiality6
Distal
(ngang) 		Remote
(huyền)
Northern-Southern kia
(cơ) 		kìa
(cờ)
Central tê tề
6 Originally, these demonstratives might have been used to assert that something is visible and/or verifiable. They have been bleached quite thoroughly and currently are usually used like other distal demonstratives. The biggest trace of their evidentiality might be in their usage as final particles, often in reduced forms cơ/cờ: [t]ừ đấy về tới Hà Nội, còn những ba cái cầu nữa cơ mà! ("From there to Hanoi, there're still three more bridges to cross!") (Ba ngày luân lạc, 1943).

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Waray-Waray

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Noun

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baó

  1. turtle; tortoise
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