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English

Alternative forms

• bau

Etymology 1

From Mandarin ? (b?o) and Cantonese ? (baau1)

Noun

bao (countable and uncountable, plural baos)

1. Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:dim sum

Translations

See also

• Baozi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Swahili bao.

Noun

bao (uncountable)

1. A mancala board game played in East Africa.

See also

• Bao (mancala game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?ba?o?/
• Rhymes: -o?
• Hyphenation: ba?o

Noun

bao

1. a tortoise
2. a turtle

Hiligaynon

Noun

baó

1. tortoise, turtle

Ilocano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba?ó
• IPA^(key): /ba??u/, [b???o]

Noun

baó

1. mouse

Derived terms

• baoen

Mandarin

Romanization

bao

1. Nonstandard spelling of b?o.
2. Nonstandard spelling of báo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of b?o.
4. Nonstandard spelling of bào.

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.

Mansaka

Noun

bao

1. turtle

Noun

baò

1. smell

Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu, *bahuq.

Noun

bao

1. smell
2. scent
3. odour

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [p????], (enunciated) [p?? w?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /p?æ?w?w/
• Bender phonemes: {bahwew}

Noun

bao

1. bird
2. chicken
3. fowl

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bao/, [?ba.o]

Noun

bao m (plural baos)

1. bao (Chinese bread)

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba?o
• IPA^(key): /?bao/

Etymology 1

Noun

bao

1. coconut shell stripped of its husk and meat

Etymology 2

See main entry.

Noun

bao

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

Venetian

Noun

bao m (plural bai)

1. worm
2. bug

Derived terms

• baéto

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??a?w??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??a?w??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??a?w??]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

(classifier cái, chi?c) bao

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

Derived terms

See also

• b?; túi

Verb

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Determiner

bao

1. (literary) so many

See also

• bao gi?
• bao nhiêu

Waray-Waray

Noun

baó

1. turtle; tortoise

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• baugh (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bæ/, /b??/
• Rhymes: -æ, -??
• Homophones: baa, bar (in some pronunciations)

Interjection

bah

1. (sometimes humorous) Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper.

Synonyms

• (expressing contempt): pht, feh, meh, pooh, pshaw, poh, pish; see also Thesaurus:bah
• (expressing disgust): bleh, ick, ych a fi; see also Thesaurus:yuck

Derived terms

• bah humbug
• pooh-bah, poobah

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• baa

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: baa, bar (in some pronunciations)

Noun

bah (plural bahs)

1. Alternative spelling of baa (the cry of a sheep or goat).

Etymology 3

From Mandarin ? (ba).

Pronunciation

Particle

bah

1. (Singlish) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Anagrams

• ABH, AHB, BHA, HAB, HBA, Hab, Hab., hab

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?/
• Hyphenation: bah

Interjection

bah

1. An exclamation of disapproval, contempt or disgust: bah, yuck

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba/

Interjection

bah

1. No.

   Bah, bah, bah !

   No, no, no!

2. An exclamation to fill space, often used as an intensifier; well, err, um.

   Tu veux jouer aussi ? - Bah, ouais.

   Do you want to play too? - Well, yeah.

Synonyms

• (exclamation to fill space): ben

Further reading

• “bah” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• hab

German

Alternative forms

• bäh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba(h)/, /ba?/, /ba.a?/

Interjection

bah

1. an exclamation of disgust: yuck, etc.

Synonyms

• igitt
• iiih
• pfui
• üäh

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba/
• Rhymes: -a

Interjection

bah

1. Indicates astonishment, resignation and despise; usually used after noticing or hearing something you don't like or you don't know what to think about, to avoid commenting or giving an answer to a question.

See also

• mah

References

• bah in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bah/
• Rhymes: -bah, -ah

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayic *baah, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *baah, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *baah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaq, from Proto-Austronesian *baSaq.

Alternative forms

• ???

Noun

bah (Jawi spelling ??, plural bah-bah)

1. flood (overflow of water)

Synonyms

• banjir / ??????

Etymology 2

Shortened form of abah, from Proto-Malayic *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aba-h, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aba, from Proto-Austronesian *aba.

Alternative forms

• abah
• aba
• ????
• ???
• ???

Noun

bah (Jawi spelling ??)

1. Alternative form of abah

Etymology 3

Shortened form of babah, from baba, variant of bapa.

Alternative forms

• bapa
• baba
• babah
• bapanda
• bapai
• bapak
• bapang
• papa
• ????
• ?????
• ?????
• ???
• ???????
• ??????
• ?????
• ?????
• ????

Noun

bah (Jawi spelling ??)

1. Alternative form of bapa

Etymology 4

Abbreviation of bahasa, from Sanskrit ???? (bh???, “language”).

Alternative forms

• bahasa
• ?????
• ???

Noun

bah (Jawi spelling ??)

1. Abbreviation of bahasa.

Etymology 5

Shortened form of bawah, from Proto-Malayic *babah, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *babah, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *babah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babaq, from Proto-Austronesian *babaq.

Alternative forms

• bawah
• ?????
• ???

Preposition

bah (Jawi spelling ??)

1. Alternative form of bawah

Min Nan

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba/, [?ba]

Interjection

bah

1. indicates disdain or unbelief

See also

• qué va

References

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

Zou

Verb

bah

1. bet

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf