ao

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ao"

English

Etymology 1

Adverb

ao (not comparable)

  1. Initialism of amongst/among/and others.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese あお (ao).

Noun

ao (uncountable)

  1. A Japanese color that includes what English-speakers would call blue and green. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

Anuta

Etymology

Borrowed from Tikopia ao.

Noun

ao

  1. day (period of 24 hours)
  2. day (period between sunrise and sunset)

References

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *ʔa:w, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔaawʔ (“upper garment”). Cognates include Vietnamese áo, Khmer អាវ (aau), Muong ảo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaːw/

Noun

ao

  1. shirt

Borôro

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɔ̯/

Noun

ao

  1. hair

Carabayo

Etymology

Compare Yuri ato (“father”).

Noun

ao

  1. father

Reference

  • Seifart and Echeverri, Evidence for the Identification of Carabayo, the Language of an Uncontacted People of the Colombian Amazon, as Belonging to the Tikuna–Yurí Linguistic Family, PLoS ONE 9(4) (2014)

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From contraction of preposition a (“to, towards”) + masculine definite article o (“the”)

Contraction

ao m (feminine á, masculine plural aos, feminine plural ás)

  1. to the, towards the

Guaraní

Noun

ao

  1. clothes

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalejaw (compare Tagalog araw).

Noun

ao

  1. light
  2. daylight
  3. day

Etymology 2

Noun

ao

  1. world
  2. earth

Etymology 3

From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic [Term?] (compare Maori ao).

Noun

ao

  1. cloud

Japanese

Romanization

ao

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あお

Lavukaleve

Verb

ao

  1. (intransitive) go in, enter

Mandarin

Romanization

ao

  1. Nonstandard spelling of āo.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of áo.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of ǎo.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of ào.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalejaw (compare Tagalog araw).

Noun

ao

  1. daytime

Etymology 2

Noun

ao

  1. world

Etymology 3

From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic [Term?] (compare Hawaiian ao).

Noun

ao

  1. cloud
Derived terms

Minanibai

Noun

ao

  1. water

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Contraction

ao (plural aos, feminine à, feminine plural às)

  1. Contraction of a o.

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:ao.

Rapa Nui

Noun

ao

  1. dancing paddle

Samoan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Tagalog araw).

Noun

ao

  1. day

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic [Term?] (compare Hawaiian ao).

Noun

ao

  1. cloud

Swahili

Adjective

-ao (declinable)

  1. their (third-person plural animate possessive adjective)

Inflection

See also

Tongan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic [Term?] (compare Hawaiian ao).

Noun

ao

  1. cloud
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

ao

  1. headdress
  2. front of an island

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

It's unclear if this term derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁nlaaw() (compare Koho tanau).

Noun

(classifier cái) ao

  1. pond
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

ao

  1. to measure roughly, to measure approximately

Further reading

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