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Portuguese
Etymology
From bom, which is from Old Galician-Portuguese bõo, from Latin bonus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
bão (feminine boa, masculine plural bão, feminine plural boa)
- (Brazil) Pronunciation spelling of bom.
1993, Pedro Corrêa Cabral, Xambioá: Guerrilha no Araguaia, Editora Record:É um dismate na berada dum igarapé qui tem um poço bão de nóis toma um banho, fazê um fogo e dispois drumi.- It is a clearing next to a small river where there is a good deep area for us to bathe in, start a fire and then sleep.
Interjection
bão?
- (colloquial, chiefly Caipira) how are you?
Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 暴 (“violent; vicious”, SV: bạo).
Pronunciation
Noun
(classifier cơn) bão • (暴, 雹, 𣋰, 𩙕)
- (weather) storm
- (medicine) colicky pain (in the abdomen)
Derived terms
Verb
bão
- (slang) to go to celebrate on the streets with motorbikes racing around the city (at times of national pride)
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