Mao
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
- (surname): Mow
Proper noun
Mao
- A common surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, usually referring to Mao Zedong.
- 1968, Edward S. Aarons, Assignment—Nuclear Nude, Fawcett Publications, page 135:
- As the revered Mao has said, 'There cannot be two suns in the same sky.'
- 1972, James Warren, “More Nixon Tapes A selection from recordings in the National Archives”, in The Atlantic:
- RN: You think you should not have gone?
TN: Yeah, I think it was a bad one to do. It was a good idea, but we shouldn't have gone to the University of Maryland … It was the motliest crew you've ever seen.
RN: Well, that's my view about going to the universities. Well, I hope it didn't bother you too much.
TN: No, it didn't. It was just—I know, I was just embarrassed because the Chinese issued a complaint.
RN: A complaint about what?
TN: Oh, you know, that they were being rude to the chairman—they were insulting Chairman Mao. There was nothing we could do! It's a free country!
- A card game, named after Mao Zedong, in which players attempt to shed all their cards without violating certain unspoken rules.
Derived terms
Translations
Mao: the Chinese surname
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Etymology 2
Proper noun
Mao
Etymology 3
Proper noun
Mao
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).
Proper noun
Mao m
Derived terms
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaː.o/
- IPA(key): /maʊ̯/ (never in isolation, but sometimes when followed by another name)
Proper noun
Mao m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Maos or (with an article) Mao, feminine genitive Mao, plural Maos)
- A transliteration of the Chinese surname 毛 (Máo); usually referring to Mao Zedong (in German Mao Tse-tung or rarer Mao Zedong)
Declension
Declension of Mao
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | |||||||
| indef. | def. | noun | indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | (ein) | (der) | Mao | (eine) | (die) | Mao | (die) | Maos |
| genitive | (eines) | (des) | Maos, Mao1 | (einer) | (der) | Mao | (der) | Maos |
| dative | (einem) | (dem) | Mao | (einer) | (der) | Mao | (den) | Maos |
| accusative | (einen) | (den) | Mao | (eine) | (die) | Mao | (die) | Maos |
1With an article.
Derived terms
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).
Proper noun
Mao m
Derived terms
Japanese
Romanization
Mao
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).
Proper noun
Mao