ao

ao (not comparable)

1. Initialism of amongst/among/and others.

Borrowed from Japanese あお (ao).

ao (uncountable)

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

• OA

Borrowed from Tikopia ao.

ao

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

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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

• IPA^(key): /ʔaːw/

ao

1. shirt

• IPA^(key): /aɔ̯/

ao

1. hair

Compare Yuri ato (“father”).

ao

1. father

• 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)

• ó

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

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

1. to the, towards the

ao

1. clothes

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

ao

1. light
2. daylight
3. day
4. dawn

ao

1. world
2. earth

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

ao

1. cloud

ao

1. Rōmaji transcription of あお

ao

1. (intransitive) go in, enter

ao

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

• 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.

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

ao

1. daytime

ao

1. world

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

ao

1. cloud

• Aotearoa

ao

1. water

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw/
• Rhymes: -aw

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

1. Contraction of a o (“to the”).

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

ao

1. dancing paddle

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

ao

1. day

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

ao

1. cloud

-ao (declinable)

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

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

ao

1. cloud

• aoaofia

ao

1. headdress
2. front of an island

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔaːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔaːw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔaːw˧˧]

Probably a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 澳 (“bay, inlet”; SV: áo).

(classifier cái) ao (㘭, 坳, 泑)

1. pond

ao (呦)

1. to measure roughly, to measure approximately

• "ao" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)