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Definitions and meaning of tao

tao

Translingual

Etymology

From English Tao.

Symbol

tao

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

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Yami terms

English

Alternative forms

  • dao

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道 (tao⁴).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daʊ/, /taʊ/
  • Rhymes: -aʊ

Proper noun

tao

  1. (Chinese philosophy and religion) Alternative letter-case form of Tao: the way of nature or way to live one's life.

Noun

tao (usually uncountable, plural taos)

  1. (by extension) The art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.
  2. (historical, obsolete) Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.

Synonyms

  • (harmonious skill) zen

See also

  • ananke

References

Anagrams

  • AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, To'a, oat, toa

Bikol Central

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ta‧o
  • IPA(key): /taˈʔo/ [taˈʔo]

Verb

tào

  1. to give
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ta‧o
  • IPA(key): /ˈtaʔo/ [ˈta.ʔo]

Noun

táo

  1. alternative form of tawo

Butuanon

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

Noun

tao

  1. person; human

Finnish

Etymology 1

From Chinese 道 (dào).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑo/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝o̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑo
  • Syllabification(key): ta‧o
  • Hyphenation(key): tao

Noun

tao

  1. tao
Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑoˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝o̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ɑo
  • Syllabification(key): ta‧o
  • Hyphenation(key): tao

Verb

tao

  1. inflection of takoa:
    1. indicative present connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

Anagrams

  • oat, ota

French

Noun

tao m (plural taos)

  1. (philosophy) Tao

Further reading

  • “tao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galo

Noun

tao

  1. thorn, splinter

Hiligaynon

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

Noun

táo

  1. man; person

Verb

táo

  1. to be born

Etymology 2

Verb

táo

  1. to look after or guard the house

Etymology 3

Verb

taó

  1. (Hiniráya, Binukídnon) to give; to donate; to make a present of

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒoː]
  • Hyphenation: tao
  • Rhymes: -oː

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 道 (dào, “way, path”).

Noun

tao

  1. tao
Declension
Derived terms
  • taoista
  • taoizmus

Etymology 2

Abbreviation from the name of the act on társasági adó és osztalékadó (“corporate tax and dividend tax”).

Noun

tao

  1. acronym of társasági adó és osztalékadó
Declension
Derived terms
  • taózás
  • taózik

References

Ilocano

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaʔo/, [ˈtaː.ʔo], [ˈtaː.ʔu]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧o

Noun

tao (plural tattao)

  1. human; human being; person; man
  2. people
  3. individual

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

Pronoun

tao

  1. alternative form of datao: indefinite pronoun usually referring to the speaker

Italian

Alternative forms

  • dao

Etymology

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese 道 (Dào, literally “the Way”) or (dào, "circuit").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.o/
  • Rhymes: -ao
  • Hyphenation: tà‧o

Noun

tao m (invariable)

  1. (philosophy) Tao

Derived terms

  • taoismo
  • taoista

Anagrams

  • -ato

Japanese

Romanization

tao

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たお

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaʔo/ [ˈtaː.ʔo] (“laying in”)
    • Rhymes: -aʔo
  • IPA(key): /taˈʔo/ [tʌˈʔo] (“curved; barking”)
    • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification: ta‧o

Noun

táo

  1. act of laying in, setting in, putting in, inserting

Derived terms

Noun

taó

  1. (of the neck) state of being curved, bent, crooked
  2. barking

Derived terms

References

  • Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “tao”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎[1], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 456
  • Allen, Larry (2021) “taó”, in Kankanaey – English Dictionary, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀuq. Compare Indonesian taruh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [to]

Noun

tao

  1. act, action
  2. preparation

Verb

tao

  1. to do
  2. to prepare, arm, take precautions

Related terms

Mandarin

Romanization

tao (tao5 / tao0, Zhuyin ˙ㄊㄠ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 萄

Romanization

tao

  1. nonstandard spelling of tāo
  2. nonstandard spelling of táo
  3. nonstandard spelling of tǎo
  4. nonstandard spelling of tào

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.

Maori

Noun

tao

  1. spear

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 道.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈta.ɔ/
  • Rhymes: -aɔ
  • Syllabification: ta‧o

Noun

tao n (indeclinable)

  1. (philosophy, Taoism) Tao (Chinese philosophical term)
    Synonym: dao

Related terms

Further reading

  • tao in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tao or English tao.

Noun

tao n (uncountable)

  1. tao

Declension

Samoan

Noun

tao

  1. spear

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tao class V (plural matao class VI)

  1. arch

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • tauo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
  • tau — obsolete
  • tawo — now dialectal, Batangas, western Marinduque, uncommon in Rizal

Etymology

From earlier tawo, from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Cognate with Ilocano tao, Kapampangan tau, Cebuano tawo, Thao caw, Tsou cou, and Motu tau.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈtaʔo/ [ˈt̪aː.ʔo] (noun)
      • Rhymes: -aʔo
    • IPA(key): /taˈʔo/ [t̪ɐˈʔo] (adjective)
      • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification: ta‧o

Noun

tao (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜂ)

  1. human; human being; person; man
  2. (colloquial) people
  3. faces of a coin
  4. (games) heads (in heads or tails)
    Synonym: tihaya
    Antonyms: ibon, taob
  5. (colloquial) husband
  6. person left alone in a place as a guard or caretaker (when others are away)
    Synonyms: bantay, tanod

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Adjective

taó (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜂ)

  1. (obsolete) mortal; deadly; fatal
    Synonyms: nakamamatay, mortal, (archaic) palana

Derived terms

  • tumao

Further reading

  • “tao”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Cau”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • (North Central Vietnam) tau (with *oː > /aw/)
  • (South Central Vietnam) ta (with *oː > /aw/ > /aː/)
  • (abbreviation) t

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *soː (“I; me”). Cognate with Thavung โซว.

There are 1st person single pronouns in Northern Austroasiatic branches with back vocalism and null-initial such as Mang ʔuː⁴, Khmu [Cuang] ʔoʔ, Riang [Sak] ʔoʔ¹, Pnar o. However, the only case of competing *s- vs. null-onset in Vietic is Proto-Vietic *suh ~ *ʔuh (“nest”), which gave rise to Vietnamese tổ and ổ respectively.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [taːw˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [taːw˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [taːw˧˧]

Pronoun

tao • (蚤, 騷)

  1. (Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, impolite, familiar, disrespectful or hostile) I/me
    Antonyms: mày, mi

Derived terms

  • mày tao chi tớ

Anagrams

  • toa

Yami

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Compare Ibatan tawo, Tagalog tao, Ilocano tao.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ta‧o

Noun

tao

  1. person; human

Descendants

  • → English: Tao
  • → Mandarin: 達悟 / 达悟 (Dáwù)

References

  • Rau, Der-Hwa Victoria 何德華, Dong, Maa-Neu 董瑪女 (2018) 臺灣南島語言叢書(14):達悟語 - 語法概論 [Taiwan Austronesian Languages Series (14): Tao language - Introduction to Grammar]‎[2], New Taipei City: 原住民族委員會, →ISBN, archived from the original on 4 November 2021, page 8
  • Dong, Maa-Neu 董瑪女, Rau, Der-Hwa Victoria 何德華, Chang, Ann Hui-Huan 張惠環, editors (2012), 達悟語詞典 Yami (Tao) Dictionary‎[3], Taipei: 國立臺灣大學出版中心 [National Taiwan University Press], →ISBN, page 238
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Cau”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Source: wiktionary.org