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Bau

Bau

See also: bau, báu, baú, bầu, bậu, and ba'u

German

Noun

Bau m (genitive Baus or Baues, plural Bauten or Baue)

  1. building, construction
  2. building site, construction site
  3. burrow (of an animal)
  4. (colloquial) prison, jail

Usage notes

  • Nowadays, the plural Bauten is used in sense 1, meaning "buildings", while the plural Baue is used for sense 3, meaning "burrows".
  • Earlier there also was the plural Bäue with umlaut.

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Related terms

  • Baute

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German . Cognate with German Bau, Dutch bouw, Swedish bo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bæːʊ̯/

Noun

Bau m (plural Bai)

  1. building
  2. building site

Related terms

bau

bau

See also: Bau, baú, báu, bầu, bậu, and ba'u

English

Alternative forms

Noun

bau (uncountable)

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

Synonyms

  • See Wikisaurus:dim sum

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French

Pronunciation

Noun

bau m (plural baux)

  1. (nautical) crossbeam

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Noun

bau

  1. smell (sensation)

Italian

Interjection

bau

  1. bow wow (sound of a dog barking)

Lojban

Cmavo

bau

  1. (sumti tcita: x1-sumti modal of bangu) in language
    mi nelci lo nu tavla bau la lojban.tw
    I like to talk in Lojban.

Rafsi

bau

  1. rafsi of bangu.

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bau/
  • Rhymes: -au, -u

Noun

bau

  1. smell (sensation)

Welsh

Noun

bau

  1. Soft mutation of pau.