báo

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bao"

Mandarin

Alternative forms

Romanization

báo (bao2, Zhuyin ㄅㄠˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㼎
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嫑
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瓟
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 窇
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薄
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 雹

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

báo f pl

  1. genitive plural of bó

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
báo báo
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ 		mbáo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Tày

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ɓaːwᴮ (“unmarried man”). Cognate with Lao ບ່າວ (bāo), Northern Thai ᨷ᩵ᩤ᩠ᩅ, Lü ᦢᦱᧁᧈ (ḃaaw¹), Tai Dam ꪚ꪿ꪱꪫ, Shan မၢဝ်ႇ (màao) or ဝၢဝ်ႇ (wàao), Ahom 𑜉𑜨𑜧 (mow) or 𑜉𑜨𑜧𑜈𑜫 (moww), Zhuang mbauq, Thai บ่าว (bàao).

Pronunciation

Noun

báo (𪽕)

  1. boy
    báo ké ― bachelor (literally, “old boy”)
    báo đai ― chaste
    nhằng báo ― unmarried man
    báo quan luông ― big mandarin

Adjective

báo (𪽕)

  1. male
    lục báo ― boy (roughly more than 15 years old)
    đây báo ― handsome
  2. beautiful; elegant
    cần báo ― handsome person

Derived terms

References

  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 豹 (“leopard”). Doublet of beo.

Noun

(classifier con) báo

  1. a leopard
  2. (by extension) a spotted panther; a jaguar or a snow leopard
  3. (by extension) a cheetah
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Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 報 (“to report; to tell”).

Verb

báo

  1. to report; to tell
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Noun

(classifier tờ) báo

  1. newspaper
  2. magazine
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Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 報 (“to repay; to thank”).

Verb

báo

  1. to repay someone;
  2. (informal) to harm someone unintentionally; to cause trouble for someone
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Adjective

báo

  1. (colloquial) Refers to a trouble-maker, troll
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