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Ao
Ao
English
Proper noun
Ao
- A tribe living primarily in the state of Nagaland in India.
- Their language, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family.
See also
-
Ao Naga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ethnologue entry for Ao, njo
ao
ao
English
Adverb
ao (not comparable)
Etymology 2
Noun
ao (uncountable)
Anagrams
Carabayo
Etymology
Noun
ao
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)
Hawaiian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Tagalog araw).
Noun
ao
Etymology 2
Noun
ao
Etymology 3
From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic (compare Maori ao).
Noun
ao
Mandarin
Romanization
ao
- Nonstandard spelling of āo.
- Nonstandard spelling of áo.
- Nonstandard spelling of ǎo.
- 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 (compare Tagalog araw).
Noun
ao
Etymology 2
Noun
ao
Etymology 3
From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic (compare Hawaiian ao).
Noun
ao
Derived terms
Minanibai
Noun
ao
References
- Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Contraction
ao (plural aos, feminine à, feminine plural às)
Quotations
For usage examples of this term, see Citations:ao.
Samoan
Etymology 1
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Tagalog araw).
Noun
ao
Etymology 2
From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic (compare Hawaiian ao).
Noun
ao
Swahili
Adjective
-ao (declinable)
- their (third-person plural animate possessive adjective)
Inflection
See also
Tongan
Etymology 1
From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic (compare Hawaiian ao).
Noun
ao
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
ao
- headdress
- front of an island
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔaːw˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔaːw˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔaːw˧˥]
Etymology 1
Noun
ao
Etymology 2
Verb
ao
- to measure roughly, to measure approximately