mau

mau

1. head

• Barunggam body parts

From Latin malus.

mau (feminine maule, masculine plural maus, feminine plural maules, comparative peire, superlative peire)

1. bad

• mauvois

• bon

• maufleit
• mauroge
• mauvoillance
• mauvoillant

From Latin male.

mau (comparative peis, superlative peis)

1. bad

From Latin malus.

mau m (plural maus, antonym bein)

1. evil

• bein

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑu̯/, [ˈmɑ̝u̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑu
• Syllabification^(key): mau

mau

1. the sound a cat makes; meow

• “mau”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• -uma, mua

Probably a blend of matt +‎ flau, maybe with influence from mauen in the older sense of "to be weepy/annoying."

• IPA^(key): /maʊ̯/
• Rhymes: -aʊ̯

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mau (strong nominative masculine singular mauer, comparative mauer, superlative am mauesten or am mausten) (informal)

1. queasy, poor, poorly, ill, bad, lousy

   Mir ist mau. ― I feel queasy/ill/poorly.

   Ich fühle mich mau ― I feel queasy/ill/poorly.

   Die Lage ist mau. ― The situation is bad.

   Die Ergebnisse sind mau. ― The results are poor.

2. down, blue

   Ich fühle mich mau. ― I feel down/blue.

mau (comparative mauer, superlative am mausten)

1. badly, bad
2. slack

   Die Geschäfte gehen mau. ― Business is slack.

• “mau” in Duden online
• “mau” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Inherited from Portuguese mau, from Old Galician-Portuguese mao, from Latin malus. Cognate with Kabuverdianu mau.

mau

1. bad, evil, dangerous

• mal

mau

1. Plural marker of nouns, used after he, determiners, and numerals.

   he mau lio ― horses

   kēlā mau hale ― those houses

   ko lākou mau kūpuna ― their grandparents

mau

1. (stative) always, perpetual
2. (stative) to continue

• maoe (pre-1947)

From Malay mahu, mau, from Classical Malay ماهو (mahu), ماهو (mau).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaw/, [ˈmau̯]

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mau

1. to want, to desire

   Synonym: ingin

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *mlu̯ɛjH (“soft”). Cognate with White Hmong mos.

mau 

1. soft

mau

1. Rōmaji transcription of まう

From Portuguese mau.

mau

1. bad

• mal

From Portuguese mau, probably with some semantic influence from Portuguese mal as well.

mau (comparative pió)

1. bad

   Êle qui mau coraçám ― He is so evil (literally, “He is so bad heart”)

   mau repente ― impulsive; rash action inspired by a bad temper

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

• Rhymes: -u

mau

1. (informal, auxiliary) Contraction of mahu.

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mau m (feminine singular mala, masculine plural maus, feminine plural malas)

1. (Gascony) bad
2. (Gascony) evil

mau

1. (Gascony) bad, badly

• trobà's mau

mau m (plural maus)

1. (Gascony) evil
2. (Gascony) illness

• maishant mau
• mau d'orelh
• mau de cap
• mau de còr
• mau de còth
• mau de ganurra
• mau de mar

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, p. 93

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mao, from Latin malus,[1][2] from Proto-Italic. Cognate with Galician mao and Spanish malo.

• Rhymes: -aw
• Homophone: mal (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: mau

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mau (feminine má, masculine plural maus, feminine plural más, comparable, comparative pior, superlative péssimo)

1. bad

   Ele é um mau condutor. ― He is a bad driver.

   Ela tem maus hábitos. ― She has bad habits.

2. evil, wicked

   Caim era mau. ― Cain was evil.

3. harmful

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: mau
• Kabuverdianu: mau
• Macanese: mau

mau m (plural maus)

1. a bad person

   Junta-te aos bons e serás melhor que eles; junta-te aos maus e serás pior que eles.

   Hang out with good people and you'll be better than them; hang out with bad people and you'll be worse than them.

mau

1. supreme

• ꞌariki mau

mau

1. opinion

Cognate with Belanda Bor miyo (“tsetse fly”).

mau

1. tsetse fly

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005

mau

1. plural marker after a noun; many, much

mau

1. hold

From Malay mahu (“to want”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.u/

mau

1. (transitive) to want

• mawu

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

From Tolai mau (“banana”).

mau

1. ripe.

• SARMENTO, Leila Lauar. Gramática em textos. 2nd edition. São Paulo, Brazil: Moderna, 2005.

Cognate with Muong bau (“dense, thick”), Chut [Cuối Chăm] baw¹ and Arem ubaw ("thick").

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ma(ː)w˧˧]

mau • (毛, 㕰, 𣭻, 牟, 哞, 󱦰)

1. (now only in certain phrases and expressions) dense
2. (by extension) fast, quick

mau • (毛, 㕰, 𣭻, 牟, 哞, 󱦰)

1. fast, quickly

   Synonym: nhanh

• chóng
• lẹ

• māu, maū
• maup, maupə

mau

1. water

• Introducción a la lengua yanomami: morfología (1996), page 104: mau u : agua cln
• B. Albert, G. Gomez, Saúde Yanomami: um manual etnolingüístico (1997), page 233: māu
• M. Müller, J. Serowë, B. Manara, Lengua y cultura Yanomami: diccionario ilustrado (2007), pages 175 and 410: maū u; mau u
• HG 1 [maup], HG 2 [maũ ũ, maaupə] (see also ASJP 1 [maup], ASJP 2 [mau; maup3, using '3' for 'ə'])