sao

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sao"

English

Noun

sao (plural saos)

  1. Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinæcia, especially H. tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sao in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

sao

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さお

Mandarin

Romanization

sao

  1. Nonstandard spelling of sāo.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of sǎo.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of sào.

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.

Tagalog

Noun

saó

  1. (nautical) mooring cable or chains; cable for mooring ships to the pier when at anchor

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Vietnamese ſao.

Adverb

sao (吵, 牢, 𡫡)

  1. why
    Sao nó bảo không đến? ― Why did he say he wouldn’t come?
Derived terms
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Vietnamese demonstratives
Laurence Thompson (1965), Vietnamese Grammar
UnspecifiedClose to the
speaker or
newly introduced		Remote,
already identified
PLACE
đ- (first register)		 đâu
‘wherever’		 đây
‘here’		 đấy
‘there’
REFERENCE
n- (second register)		 nào
‘whichever’		 này
‘this’		 nọ
‘that’
PROPORTION
b- (first register)		 bao
‘to whatever extent’		 bây
‘to this extent’		 bấy
‘to that extent’
MANNER
s- (first register)
v- (second register)		 sao
‘however’		 vầy
‘this way’		 vậy
‘that way’
Nguyễn Phú Phong (1992), “Vietnamese Demonstratives Revisited”
D•
(Indefinite)		D1
(Proximal)		D2
(Medial)		D3
(Distal)
+NOM(inal) đâu
place-what		 đây
place-this		 đấy
place-that1
±NOM(inal) đó
(place-)that1		 kia
(place-)that2
–NOM(inal) nào
what		 nầy
this		 nấy/ấy
that1		 nọ
that2

Adjective

sao

  1. problematic, bad
    Có sao lắm không? ― Is it very bad?
    Không sao đâu. ― No problem.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Vietnamese ſao, from Proto-Vietic *k-raːw. Cognate with Muong khao.

It is a semantic loan from English star, in the senses of “celebrity; actor”.

Noun

(classifier vì, ngôi) sao (𣋀, 𣇟, 𤚧)

  1. star (luminous celestial body)
  2. asterisk

Noun

(classifier ngôi) sao (𣋀, 𣇟, 𤚧)

  1. star (celebrity)
  2. star (actor)
Derived terms
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