English

Proper noun

Ao

1. A tribe living primarily in the state of Nagaland in India.
2. Their language, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family.

See also

• Ao Naga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ethnologue entry for Ao, njo

English

Adverb

ao ‎(not comparable)

1. Initialism of amongst/among/and others.

Etymology 2

From Japanese あお.

Noun

ao ‎(uncountable)

1. A Japanese color word that includes what English-speakers would call blue and green.

Anagrams

• OA

Borôro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɔ̯/

Noun

ao

1. hair

Carabayo

Etymology

Compare Yuri ato ‎(“father”).

Noun

ao

1. father

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

• ó

Etymology

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

Contraction

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

1. to the, towards the

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

ao

1. light
2. daylight
3. day

Etymology 2

Noun

ao

1. world
2. earth

Etymology 3

From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic (compare Maori ao).

Noun

ao

1. cloud

Japanese

Romanization

ao

1. rōmaji reading of あお

Lavukaleve

Verb

ao

1. (intransitive) go in, enter

Mandarin

Romanization

ao

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

1. daytime

Etymology 2

Noun

ao

1. world

Etymology 3

From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic (compare Hawaiian ao).

Noun

ao

1. cloud

Derived terms

• Aotearoa

Minanibai

Noun

ao

1. water

References

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

Contraction

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

1. Contraction of a o ‎(“to the”).

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:ao.

Rapa Nui

Noun

ao

1. dancing paddle

Samoan

Etymology 1

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

Noun

ao

1. day

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *qao, from Proto-Oceanic (compare Hawaiian ao).

Noun

ao

1. cloud

Swahili

Adjective

-ao ‎(declinable)

1. 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

1. cloud

Derived terms

• aoaofia

Etymology 2

Noun

ao

1. headdress
2. 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

1. pond

Etymology 2

Verb

ao

1. to measure roughly, to measure approximately