bao

Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (bāo) or Cantonese 包 (baau1). Cognate of Vietnamese bánh bao.

• bau, bow

• IPA^(key): /baʊ/

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bao (countable and uncountable, plural baos or bao)

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

• See Thesaurus:dim sum

• Baozi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Swahili bao.

• IPA^(key): /baʊ/

bao (uncountable)

1. A mancala board game played in East Africa.

• Bao (mancala game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

From Proto-Philippine *baququ. Compare Cebuano bao, Hiligaynon bao, Maranao bao'o and Tausug bauu

bao

1. tortoise; turtle

From Proto-Philippine *baququ.Compare Hiligaynon bao, Maranao bao'o and Tausug bauu

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʔoʔ/
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Hyphenation: ba‧o

bao

1. a tortoise
2. a turtle
3. (vehicles, automotive, slang) Volkswagen Beetle .

baó

1. tortoise, turtle
2. (vehicles, automotive, slang) Volkswagen Beetle

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balabaw. Compare Cebuano ambaw, Higaonon ambaw, Mansaka ambaw, Tagakaulu Kalagan ambaw, Tausug ambaw, Tiruray ambaw and Makasar balao

• Hyphenation: ba‧ó
• IPA^(key): /baˈʔu/, [bɐˈʔo]

baó

1. mouse

• baoen

bao

1. Nonstandard spelling of bāo.
2. Nonstandard spelling of báo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bǎo.
4. Nonstandard spelling of bào.

• 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.

Akin to Maranao bao'o.

bao

1. turtle

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu.

baò

1. smell

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠɑːɔ], (enunciated) [pˠɑ wɔ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠæɰwɛw/
• Bender phonemes: {bahwew}

bao

1. bird
2. chicken
3. fowl

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /ˈbao/ [ˈba.o]
• Rhymes: -ao
• Syllabification: ba‧o

bao m (plural baos)

1. bao (Chinese bread)

• “bao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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bao (ma class, plural mabao)

1. board (piece of wood)
2. goal

   Synonym: goli

3. board game
4. a traditional Swahili mancala board game played in most of East Africa

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʔo/ [ˈba.ʔo]
• Rhymes: -aʔo
• Syllabification: ba‧o

bao (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜂ)

1. coconut shell stripped of its husk and meat

   Synonym: tsireta

2. (anatomy) cranium

   Synonym: bao ng ulo

3. (games, obsolete) a game of various chances, done with a coconut shell, and a cane placed crosswise on the ground

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

bao (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜂ)

1. Alternative form of balo (“widow; widower”)

• bauo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• bawo — obsolete

• “bao”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.o]

bao

1. a water current

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

bao m (plural bai)

1. worm
2. bug

• baéto

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˧˧]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 包.

(classifier cái, chiếc) bao

1. bag; sack; pack
2. box; packet

• bị; túi

bao

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

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

bao • (包)

1. (literary when used stand-alone) how; how much

   Ngàn năm là bao?

   How long is one thousand years really?

2. (Mekong Delta, colloquial) very; super (placed before an adjective to intensify)

   cam bao ngọt ― super-duper sweet oranges

bao • (包)

1. (literary) so many

   bao người ― people everywhere

   bao ngày ― day after day

• bao giờ
• bao nhiêu

• boa

baó

1. turtle; tortoise