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3-letter words (4 found)

ABO,BAO,BOA,OBA,

2-letter words (4 found)

AB,BA,BO,OB,

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bao abo boa oba aob oab

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Definitions and meaning of bao

bao

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • bau, bow

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʊ/

Noun

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
Synonyms
  • See Thesaurus:dim sum
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • Baozi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Swahili bao.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʊ/

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, Oba., a.o.b., abo, boa, oba

Asi

Etymology

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

Noun

bao

  1. tortoise; turtle

Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bao

  1. a tortoise
  2. a turtle

Hiligaynon

Noun

baó

  1. tortoise, turtle

Ilocano

Pronunciation

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

Noun

baó

  1. mouse

Derived terms

  • baoen

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.

Mansaka

Etymology 1

Akin to Maranao bao'o.

Noun

bao

  1. turtle

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu.

Noun

baò

  1. smell

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bao m (plural baos)

  1. bao (Chinese bread)

Further reading

  • “bao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili

Pronunciation

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

Tagalog

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

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
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

bao (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜂ)

  1. Alternative form of balo (“widow; widower”)
Alternative forms
  • bauo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
  • bawo — obsolete
Derived terms

Further reading

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

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈba.o]

Noun

bao

  1. a water current

References

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

Venetian

Noun

bao m (plural bai)

  1. worm
  2. bug

Derived terms

  • baéto

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 包.

Noun

(classifier cái, chiếc) bao

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

Etymology 2

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

Adverb

bao • (包)

  1. (literary when used stand-alone) how; how much
  2. (Mekong Delta, colloquial) very; super (placed before an adjective to intensify)
    cam bao ngọt ― super-duper sweet oranges

Determiner

bao • (包)

  1. (literary) so many
    bao người ― people everywhere
    bao ngày ― day after day
See also
  • bao giờ
  • bao nhiêu

Anagrams

  • boa

Waray-Waray

Noun

baó

  1. turtle; tortoise

Source: wiktionary.org