Vietnamese

Proper noun

Mão

1. A male given name
2. the fourth Earthly Branch represented by the Cat in Vietnam and by the Rabbit in China

Synonyms

• Mẹo

Derived terms

• giờ Mão

Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• maão

Noun

mão f

1. hand
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 294 (facsimile):

     Como hũa moller q̇ iogaua os dados en pulla lançou hũa pedra aa omagen de ſ[ant]a mari[a] por q̇ perdera ⁊ parou un angeo de pedra que y eſtava a mão ⁊ reçibiu o colpe.

     How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.

Descendants

• Galician: man
• Portuguese: mão
  • Kabuverdianu: mo

Portuguese

mão

Alternative forms

• maõ (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mão ‎(“hand”), from Latin manus ‎(“hand”), from Proto-Italic *manus, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Galician man, Spanish mano, Catalan mà, Occitan man, French main, Italian mano and Romanian mână.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ̃w̃/
• Hyphenation: mão
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃

Noun

mão f (plural mãos)

1. hand
   • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 52:

     Apontara com a mão machucada.

     He had pointed it using his wounded hand.

Quotations

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

Related terms

Derived terms

• à mão de semear
• mão-de-obra
• mão-posta

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: mo