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English
Etymology
From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃお (nyao, “meow, miaow”).
Interjection
nyao
- (chiefly anime and manga fandom) The cry of a cat.
1994 December 13, Mark Maestas, “Dream Tournament 3: Round 1 Results, Part 2”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet):Scorpion's body dropped to the ground as Felicia turned back into a cat. With a barely audible "nyao," she then began to lick and clean herself off.
1997 August 16, Terra, “ Star98 - Episode 2: The Lost Senshi”, in rec.arts.anime.fandom (Usenet):Luna looked at me with a very skeptical face, "Nyao?!"
It must have been a cat's way of saying, 'You've got to be kidding!'
2001 March 25, Aylakitty , “Re: If AFD was a family...”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):I'd Be The Family Kitty Cat! Nyao! Heehee! :::lies down on a rug and purrs:::
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nyao.
Synonyms
Anagrams
Ternate
Etymology
From Proto-North Halmahera *nawok (fish).
Pronunciation
Noun
nyao (Jawi ڽاو)
- a fish
References
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh