bao

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

English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• bau, bow

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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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

• char siu bao
• dan bau
• gua bao
• hum bow
• tangbao

 

Translations

Chinese steamed stuffed bun

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

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

  Dungan: бозы (bozɨ)

  Hokkien: 包仔 (zh-min-nan) (pau-á)

  Mandarin: 包子 (zh) (bāozi)

• 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 (ms)
• Mongolian: бууз (mn) (buuz)
• Russian: ба́оцзы pl (báoczy)
• Tagalog: siopao
• Thai: ซาลาเปา (th) (saa-laa-bpao)
• Vietnamese: bánh bao (vi)

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

Compare Cebuano bao, Hiligaynon bao, Maranao bao'o and Tausug bauu

Noun

bao

1. tortoise; turtle

Cebuano

Etymology

Compare Hiligaynon bao, Maranao bao'o and Tausug bauu

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bao

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

Hiligaynon

Noun

baó

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

Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balabaw. Compare Cebuano ambaw, Higaonon ambaw, Mansaka ambaw, Tagakaulu Kalagan ambaw, Tausug ambaw, Tiruray ambaw and Makasar balao

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

• Audio (Kenya)

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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

• bao ng ulo
• matang bao
• pamao
• tabong-bao

 

See also

• bunot

 

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

• baong baliw
• pagbauhan
• pagkabao

 

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

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

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

Adverb

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

Determiner

bao • (包)

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

Vietnamese demonstratives (alternative version)

	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	nấy	nớ	nọ	nào
Place, nominal2 đ-	đây	đí đấy	—	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”).

• bao giờ
• bao nhiêu

Anagrams

• boa

Waray-Waray

Noun

baó

1. turtle; tortoise