sao
See also: Appendix:Variations of "sao"
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EnglishEdit
NounEdit
sao (plural saos)
- Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinæcia, especially H. tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sao in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
AnagramsEdit
JapaneseEdit
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
sao
Usage notesEdit
- 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.
TagalogEdit
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [saːw˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʂaːw˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʂaːw˧˧] ~ [saːw˧˧]
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Vietnamese ſao.
AdverbEdit
- why
- Sao nó bảo không đến? ― Why did he say he wouldn’t come?
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
See alsoEdit
| 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 |
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| ±NOM(inal) | đó (place-)that1 |
kia (place-)that2 | |||||||||||||||||
| –NOM(inal) | nào what |
nầy this |
nấy/ấy that1 |
nọ that2 | |||||||||||||||
AdjectiveEdit
sao
- problematic, bad
- Có sao lắm không? ― Is it very bad?
- Không sao đâu. ― No problem.
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle Vietnamese ſao, from Proto-Vietic *k-raːw. Cognate with Muong khao.
It is a semantic loan from English star, in the senses of “celebrity; actor”.
NounEdit
(classifier vì, ngôi) sao (𣋀, 𣇟, 𤚧)
- star (luminous celestial body)
- asterisk
- toán sao
- an "asterisked" math problem (marked with an asterisk); a difficult math problem
NounEdit
(classifier ngôi) sao (𣋀, 𣇟, 𤚧)