bao

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

English

Alternative forms

• bau

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (bāo) or Cantonese 包 (baau1).

Noun

bao (countable and uncountable, plural baos)

1. Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:dim sum

Translations

Chinese steamed stuffed bun

• Burmese: ပေါက်စီ (my) (paukci)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 包 (baau¹), 包子 (baau¹ zi²)

  Dungan: бозы (bozɨ)

  Mandarin: 包子 (zh) (bāozi)

  Min Nan: 包仔 (zh-min-nan) (pau-á)

• Indonesian: pau, bakpao (id)
• Japanese: 包子 (ja) (paozu), パオズ (paozu), 焼包, シャオパオ, バインバオ

• Korean: 바오쯔 (baojjeu), 바인 바오 (bain bao)
• Malay: pau
• Mongolian: бууз (mn) (buuz)
• Russian: ба́оцзы pl (báoczy)
• Tagalog: siopao
• Thai: ซาลาเปา (saa-laa-bpao)
• Vietnamese: bánh bao (vi)

See also

• Baozi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Swahili bao.

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

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Asi

Etymology

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

Noun

bao

1. tortoise; turtle

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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

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Hiligaynon

Noun

baó

1. tortoise, turtle

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Ilocano

Pronunciation

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

Noun

baó

1. mouse

Derived terms

• baoen

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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

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Mansaka

Etymology 1

Akin to Maranao bao'o.

Noun

bao

1. turtle

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu.

Noun

baò

1. smell

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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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbao/, [ˈba.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

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

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

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba‧o
• IPA^(key): /ˈbaʔo/

Etymology 1

Noun

bao

1. coconut shell stripped of its husk and meat
2. (anatomy) cranium

   Synonym: bao ng ulo

Derived terms

• bao ng ulo
• pamao
• tabong-bao

 

Etymology 2

See main entry.

Noun

bao

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

Derived terms

• pagkabao

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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

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Venetian

Noun

bao m (plural bai)

1. worm
2. bug

Derived terms

• baéto

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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

Derived terms

• bao kiếm

 

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

Derived terms

• bao phủ
• bao quanh
• bao quát
• bao trùm

 

Etymology 2

Determiner

bao

1. (literary) so many

   bao người

   people everywhere

   bao ngày

   day after day

See also

Vietnamese demonstratives
Laurence Thompson (1965), Vietnamese Grammar
					Unspecified					Close to the speaker or newly introduced					Remote, already identified
PLACE đ- (first register)					đâu ‘wherever’					đây ‘here’					đấy ‘there’
REFERENCE n- (second register)					nào ‘whichever’					này ‘this’					nọ ‘that’
PROPORTION b- (first register)					bao ‘to whatever extent’					bây ‘to this extent’					bấy ‘to that extent’
MANNER s- (first register) v- (second register)					sao ‘however’					vầy ‘this way’					vậy ‘that way’
Nguyễn Phú Phong (1992), “Vietnamese Demonstratives Revisited”
				D• (Indefinite)				D1 (Proximal)				D2 (Medial)				D3 (Distal)
+NOM(inal)				đâu place-what				đây place-this				đấy place-that1
±NOM(inal)												đó (place-)that1				kia (place-)that2
–NOM(inal)				nào what				nầy this				nấy/ấy that1				nọ that2

• bao giờ
• bao nhiêu

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Waray-Waray

Noun

baó

1. turtle; tortoise