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) (file)

Noun

bao (countable and uncountable, plural baos or bao)

Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine
A sandwich or stuffed bun made with this bread

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:dim sum

Derived terms

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)

Etymology 2

From Swahili bao.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baʊ/

Noun

bao (uncountable)

A mancala board game played in East Africa.

Anagrams

A/B/O, ABO, AOB, Abo, OAB, OBA, Oba., a.o.b., abo, boa, oba

Asi

Etymology

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

Noun

bao

tortoise; turtle

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

a tortoise
a turtle

Hiligaynon

Noun

baó

tortoise, turtle

Ilocano

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: ba‧ó
IPA^(key): /baˈʔu/,

Noun

baó

mouse

Derived terms

baoen

Mandarin

Romanization

bao

Nonstandard spelling of bāo.
Nonstandard spelling of báo.
Nonstandard spelling of bǎo.
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

turtle

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu.

Noun

baò

smell

Marshallese

Pronunciation

(phonetic) IPA^(key): , (enunciated)
(phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠæɰwɛw/
Bender phonemes: {bahwew}

Noun

bao

References

Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbao/
Rhymes: -ao
Syllabification: ba‧o

Noun

bao m (plural baos)

bao (Chinese bread)

Swahili

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Bao (game)

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun

bao (ma class, plural mabao)

board (piece of wood)
goal
Synonym: goli
board game
a traditional Swahili mancala board game played in most of East Africa

Tagalog

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbaʔo/,
Hyphenation: ba‧o

Etymology 1

Noun

bao (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜂ)

coconut shell stripped of its husk and meat
Synonym: tsireta
(anatomy) cranium
Synonym: bao ng ulo
(games, obsolete) a game of various chances, done with a coconut shell, and a cane placed crosswise on the ground

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From elision of /l/ from earlier balo. See more at balo.

Noun

bao (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜂ)

Alternative form of balo (“widow; widower”)

Alternative forms

bauo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
bawo — obsolete

Derived terms

Ternate

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Noun

bao

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)

worm
bug

Derived terms

baéto

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 包.

Noun

(classifier cái, chiếc) bao

bag; sack; pack
box; packet

Derived terms

bao kiếm

Verb

bao

to enclose; to envelope; to cover
to guarantee; to assure
to take on everything; to undertake (the whole of) something as someone's proxy
to treat; to pay (for someone else); to foot the bill; to cover (someone else); to stand

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Adverb

bao • (包)

(literary when used stand-alone) how; how much
Ngàn năm là bao?
How long is one thousand years really?
(Mekong Delta, colloquial) very; super (placed before an adjective to intensify)
cam bao ngọt ― super-duper sweet oranges

Determiner

bao • (包)

(literary) so many
bao người ― people everywhere

bao ngày ― day after day

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”).

Anagrams

boa

Waray-Waray

Noun

baó

turtle; tortoise

Wikious

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