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bao

See also: Bao and Appendix:Variations of "bao"
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Abbreviation of English Barasano.

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bao

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Waimaha.

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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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Swahili baobor.
English bao

    Borrowed 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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    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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    • IPA(key): /ˈbaʔoʔ/ [ˈba.ʔoʔ]
    • Rhymes: -oʔ
    • Hyphenation: ba‧o

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    bàò (Badlit spelling ᜊᜂ)

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

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    baó

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

    Ilocano

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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]

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    baó

    1. mouse

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    Mandarin

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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.

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    Akin to Maranao bao'o.

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    bao

    1. turtle

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    From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu.

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    baò

    1. smell

    Marshallese

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    This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
    Particularly: “the cognates from Naan don't really add up as the "m" doesn't correspond to a "b" in native Micronesian cognates”

    Compare Gilbertese moa (“chicken, hen”) and Nauruan mo, domo (“chicken”).

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    bao (construct baoun or bawūn, causative person noun ri-kōbbaoo) (alienable)

    1. bird (any animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves)
      Elōn̄ baoun mejatoto āniin.
      There are lots of birds on this island.
    2. (specifically) chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)
      Synonym: bao in laļ
      Elōn̄ baoun laļ āniin.
      There are lots of chickens on this island.
    3. fowl, poultry (as food)

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    bao (causative kōbao or kōbbaoo, distributive bōbaoo)

    1. (in distributive form) to have lots of birds or chickens
      Ebbaoo āniin.
      There are lots of birds/chickens on this island.

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    While bao can refer to any bird species, it most commonly refers to chickens. For clarity, chickens are specified as bao in laļ (“chickens”, literally “birds of earth”) and flying birds as bao in mejatoto (“flying birds”, literally “birds of air”).

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    • Abo, Takaji; Bender Byron W.; Capelle, Alfred; DeBrum, Tony (2009–), “bao”, in Marshallese–English Online Dictionary‎[1]
    • Nik Willson (2014), Naan‎[2], Majuro, Marshall Islands, pages 928–9

    Minangkabau

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    From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baba, from Proto-Austronesian *baba. Cognate with Malay bawa.

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    bao

    1. to carry, bring

    Poumei Naga

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

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    bao

    1. hand

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    • Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho (2021), Grammar of Poumai Naga (Poula), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 449

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

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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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    bao class V (plural mabao class VI)

    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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    • (Standard Tagalog)
      • IPA(key): /ˈbaʔo/ [ˈbaː.ʔo] (“coconut shell; cranium”, noun)
      • IPA(key): /baˈʔo/ [bɐˈʔo] (“game of chances”, noun)
        • Rhymes: -o
    • Syllabification: ba‧o

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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
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    baó (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜂ)

    1. (games, obsolete) a game of various chances, done with a coconut shell, and a cane placed crosswise on the ground
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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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    From Proto-Philippine *baququ. Compare Kapampangan pau, Hanunoo paoo, Cebuano bao, Hiligaynon bao, Maranao bao'o, Tausug bauu, and Malay biuku.

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    baó (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜂ) (dialectal, Quezon)

    1. tortoise found on land or fresh water

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    • “bao”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
    • Manuel, E. Arsenio (1971), A Lexicographic Study of Tayabas Tagalog of Quezon Province, Quezon City: Diliman Review, page 69

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    Tày

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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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    • Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[3][4] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
    • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎[5] (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

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    bao m (plural bai)

    1. worm
    2. bug

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      Sino-Vietnamese word from 包.

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      (classifier cái, chiếc) bao

      1. bag; sack; pack
      2. box; packet
      3. (euphemistic) clipping of bao cao su (“condom”)
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      • → Khmer: បាវ (baaw)
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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
        Đi ăn không? Tao bao.
        Do you want to eat out? It's on me.
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      Part of the b-series of demonstratives, along with bây, bấy.

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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

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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       		ní
      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) and their (pretty much) obligatory use when locating an object: Không phải cái này mà là cái kia. ("Not this one, that one.")


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      baó

      1. turtle; tortoise
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