mô
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mo"
Louisiana Creole French
Etymology
From French mon (“my”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mo/
- Homophone: mo
Determiner
mô (feminine mâ, plural mê)
- my
See also
- mo
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmo/
Noun
mô m or f by sense (uncountable)
- (as a form of address) Eye dialect spelling of amor.
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [mo˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [mow˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [mow˧˧]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Vietic *-moː.
Pronoun
mô • (謨, 模)
- (Central Vietnam) where
- Synonym: đâu
- Mi đi mô về rứa?
- Where did you go?
- Chơ đi mô rồi cũng nhớ về Hà Tĩnh.
- Wherever I go, I always miss my hometown Hà Tĩnh.
Particle
mô • (謨, 模)
- (Central Vietnam, after a verb) no; not
- Synonym: đâu
- Hắn có biết mô.
- How should he know?
- Tau có ăn mô mà biết.
- I didn't eat it, why would I know how it tastes?
Derived terms
Derived terms
- chi chi mô mô
- đi mô
- khi mô
Noun
mô • (模)
- mound
- a tissue (aggregation of cells)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- mấp mô
- mô mềm
Etymology 3
Sino-Vietnamese reading of various Chinese characters.
Romanization
mô
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 模
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 膜
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 蟆 (“frog, toad”)
- 2005, chapter 17, in Cao Tự Thanh, transl., Anh hùng xạ điêu, Văn học, translation of 射雕英雄传 by Jīn Yōng (Kim Dung):
- […] chiêu Nhất dương chỉ ấy đánh trúng giữa mi tâm y, phá tan Cáp mô công mà y nhiều năm khổ luyện.
- […] that One-Yang Finger strike hit him right between his eyebrows, breaking the Toad Skill he had been practicing for many years.
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- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 謨
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 摹