sao

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

AOS, AOs, ASO, Aso, OAS, OSA, Oas, SOA, Soa

IlocanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Philippine *sahuq

PronunciationEdit

Hyphenation: sa‧o

NounEdit

sao

speech
(linguistics) language
Iniiloko a sao
Ilocano language
word

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

agsao (“to speak; to talk”)
isao (“to say; to express”)
kasao (“speaker”)
makisao (“to speak; to talk; to converse”)
saoen (“to speak; to utter”)
sao-sao (“rumor; hearsay; idle talk”)

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

sao

Rōmaji transcription of さお

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

sao

Nonstandard spelling of sāo.
Nonstandard spelling of sǎo.
Nonstandard spelling of sào.

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

NounEdit

saó

(nautical) mooring cable or chains; cable for mooring ships to the pier when at anchor

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.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 牢 (MC lɑu) (modern SV: lao), so the older form of the word was likely *C-raːw (where *C is nonspecific consonant).

AdverbEdit

sao • (吵, 牢, 𡫡)

why
Synonyms: tại sao, vì sao

Sao nó bảo không đến?
Why did he say he wouldn’t come?
how
Synonym: làm sao

Sao tao biết được?
How should I know?

Sao làm được hay vậy?
How did you do that?
what; what is it; what now
Synonyms: làm sao, gì, cái gì

Sao?
Sao trăng gì !?
Wut?
The hell you mean, "wut"?
whatever
Sao cũng được.
Whatever / Anything will do.

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
±NOM(inal)					đó (place-)that₁		kia (place-)that₂
–NOM(inal)	nào what		nầy this		nấy/ấy that₁		nọ that₂