mão

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Galician

Noun

mão f (plural mãos, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of man

Further reading

  • mão” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin manum (hand).

Pronunciation

  • (Galicia) IPA(key): /ˈmã.o/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmã.ʊ/

Noun

mão f (plural mãos)

  1. hand
    • Como hũa moller q̇ iogaua os dados en pulla lançou hũa pedra aa omagen de ſa mari por q̇ perdera ⁊ parou un angeo de pedra que y eſtava a mão ⁊ reçibiu o colpe.
      How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Fala: man
  • Galician: man, mao
  • Portuguese: mão (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mão (hand), from Latin manus (hand), from Proto-Italic *manus, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (to beckon), or perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *mon-u- (see the Proto-Italic entry). Cognate with Galician man, Spanish mano, Catalan , Occitan man, French main, Italian mano and Romanian mână.

Pronunciation

Noun

mão f (plural mãos)

  1. hand
  2. forefoot (either of the front feet of a quadruped)
  3. (card games) hand (a round of a card game)
  4. coat (a covering of material, such as paint)
    Synonym: demão
  5. (sports) leg (a single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest)
  6. (soccer) handball (football offence)
  7. (figurative) hand (an instance of helping)
    Synonyms: ajuda, auxílio

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mão.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Kabuverdianu: mo
  • Macanese: mám

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cái) mão

  1. (Central Vietnam) Alternative form of mạo (headwear, hat, cap)