Wiktionary

nao

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nao"

English edit

Adjective edit

nao

  1. (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of now

Adverb edit

nao

  1. (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of now

Anagrams edit

Dutch Low Saxon edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Dutch na.

Preposition edit

nao

  1. after

Galician edit

 
Replica of the Santa Maria, a nao

Etymology edit

Attested since 1350; from Old Catalan or Old Occitan nau, from Latin navis. Doublet of nave. Compare also Portuguese nau.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

nao f (plural naos)

  1. (nautical, historical) a three or four-masted sailing ship used all along the 15th century and early 16th; carrack
    • 1384, M. A. Comesaña Martínez, editor, O tombo do Hospital e Ermida de santa María do Camiño de Pontevedra, Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 99:
      nao ou baixel ou outro navio que a esta villa viesen que trouxese sal des huun milleyro e medio de sal arriba que lles desen tres faneigas grandes de sal aos ditos lazerados
      carrack or vessel or other ship that to this town came bringing salt, from a thousand and a hald of salt up, they shall give three large bushels of salt to said lepers

References edit

  • “nao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “nao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “nao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “nao” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

German Low German edit

Alternative forms edit

  • Low Prussian: nâ,[1] noa, nah
  • Mecklenburgisch: nå, nâ,[2] nah
  • Westphalian:
    East Westphalian: näu (Ravensberg)
    Sauerländisch, East Westphalian (Lippe), South Westphalian (Dortmund): no
    Sauerländisch: noh (Hochsauerland, Olpe)
  • Eastphalian: noah (Wedemark)

Etymology edit

From Middle Low German nâch, nâ, from Old Saxon nāh.

Preposition edit

nao[3][4][5]

  1. (Brandenburgisch, including Altmärkisch; Westphalian, including Westmünsterländisch, Münsterland) to, towards
    Synonym: tau

References edit

  1. ^ Hermann Frischbier (1883) Preußisches Wörterbuch. Ost- und westpreußische Provinzialismen in alphabetischer Folge. Zweiter Band, Berlin: Verlag von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin, p. 85
  2. ^ Karl Nerger (1869) Grammatik des meklenburgischen Dialektes älterer and neuerer Zeit. Laut- und Flexionslehre, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, p. 31, 37, 62 (glossed as propinquus) and p. 153
  3. ^ Piirainen, Elisabeth, Elling, Wilhelm, editors (1992), “nao”, in Wörterbuch der westmünsterländischen Mundart (Beiträge des Heimatvereins Vreden zur Landes- und Volkskunde) (in German), volume 40, Vreden: Heimatverein Vreden im Selbstverlag, →ISBN
  4. ^ Johann Friedrich Danneil (1859) “nao”, in Wörterbuch der altmärkisch-plattdeutschen Mundart (in German), Salzwedel: in Commission bei J. D. Schmidt, page 144
  5. ^ Friedrich, Fenna, Olthuis, Gerhard, Rieger, Gerda, Rötterink, Albert, Stegemerten, Gertrud, editors (2009), “noa”, in Grafschafter Platt: Wörterbuch Hochdeutsch-Plattdeutsch für Kindertageseinrichtungen und Grundschulen der Grafschaft Bentheim (Das Bentheimer Land) (in German), volume 179, Uelsen: Groafschupper Plattproater Kring, →ISBN

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

nao

  1. Rōmaji transcription of なお

Mandarin edit

Romanization edit

nao

  1. Nonstandard spelling of nāo.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of náo.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of nǎo.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of nào.

Usage notes edit

  • 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.

Portuguese edit

Noun edit

nao f (plural naos)

  1. Obsolete spelling of nau

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Catalan nau, from Latin navem. Doublet of nave.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈnao/ [ˈna.o]
  • Rhymes: -ao
  • Syllabification: na‧o

Noun edit

nao f (plural naos)

  1. (poetic) a ship, a vessel
    Synonym: buque
  2. carrack
    Synonym: carraca

Further reading edit

Swahili edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Prepositional phrase edit

nao

  1. Contraction of na wao; wa class(II) inflected form of na; and them, with them
  2. m class(III)/u class(XI) inflected form of na; and it, with it

See also edit

Object-inflected forms of na
Singular Plural
1st person nami nasi
2nd person nawe nanyi
3rd person m-wa(I/II) naye nao
m-mi(III/IV) nao nayo
ji-ma(V/VI) nalo nayo
ki-vi(VII/VIII) nacho navyo
n(IX/X) nayo nazo
u(XI) nao see n(X) or ma(VI)
ku(XV/XVII) nako
pa(XVI) napo
mu(XVIII) namo
For a full table, see Appendix:Swahili personal pronouns.

Tày edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

nao

  1. to warm oneself
    nao fầy ― to warm oneself with fire
    nao đét ― to sunbathe
  2. to wait for
    nao lồm
    to get fresh air
    (literally, “to wait for wind”)

Etymology 2 edit

Adjective edit

nao

  1. smoky

References edit

  • Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎[3] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Adjective edit

nao • (孬) (diminutive reduplication nao nao)

  1. anxious; uneasy
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
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Etymology 2 edit

Pronoun edit

nao

  1. (archaic, literary) Alternative form of nào (“which”)
    nơi nao ― where
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