bau

• bao

From Sinitic 包 (bāo) (Mandarin bāo, Cantonese baau1).

bau (uncountable)

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

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• Baozi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Abu, Bua

bau

1. widow; widower

• IPA^(key): /bo/

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• Homophones: baux, beau, beaux, bot, bots

bau m (plural baux)

1. (nautical) crossbeam

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

From Malay bau, from Proto-Malayic *bau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu, *bahuq.

bau (plural bau-bau)

1. smell (sensation)

• berbau
• membaui
• terbau
• bau-bauan
• sebau

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.u/

bau

1. bow wow (sound of a dog barking)

bau

1. hill

• https://inter.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Luk_Hkaw_Thesis2017.pdf

From Proto-Malayic *bau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu, *bahuq.

• IPA^(key): /bau/
• Rhymes: -au, -u

bau (plural bau-bau, informal first-person possessive bauku, informal second-person possessive baumu, third-person possessive baunya)

1. smell (sensation)

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

• IPA^(key): /baw/

bau

1. smell, odor, scent

bau

1. (stative) sore, irritated

• bau in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• bau in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• bau in Lewis S. Josephs; Edwin G. McManus; Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 7.

bau

1. Soft mutation of pau.