nao

nao

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nao"

English

Adjective

nao

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of now

Adverb

nao

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of now

Anagrams

• AON, Noa, ONA, Ona, ano-, noa

---

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch na.

Preposition

nao

1. after

---

Galician

Replica of the Santa Maria, a nao

Etymology

Attested since 1350; from Old Catalan or Old Occitan nau, from Latin navis. Doublet of nave. Compare also Portuguese nau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaʊ̯/

Noun

nao f (plural naos)

1. (nautical, historical) a three or four-masted sailing ship used all along the 15th century and early 16th; carrack
   • 1384, M. A. Comesaña Martínez (ed.), O tombo do Hospital e Ermida de santa María do Camiño de Pontevedra. Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 99:

     nao ou baixel ou outro navio que a esta villa viesen que trouxese sal des huun milleyro e medio de sal arriba que lles desen tres faneigas grandes de sal aos ditos lazerados

     carrack or vessel or other ship that to this town came bringing salt, from a thousand and a hald of salt up, they shall give three large bushels of salt to said lepers

References

• “nao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “nao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “nao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “nao” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

---

German Low German

Alternative forms

• Low Prussian: nâ[1], noa, nah
• Mecklenburgisch: nå, nâ[2], nah
• Westphalian:

  East Westphalian: näu (Ravensberg)

  Sauerländisch, East Westphalian (Lippe), South Westphalian (Dortmund): no

  Sauerländisch: noh (Hochsauerland, Olpe)

• Eastphalian: noah (Wedemark)

Etymology

From Middle Low German nâch, nâ, from Old Saxon nāh.

Preposition

nao[3][4][5]

1. (Märkisch, Westphalian) to, towards

   Synonym: tau

References

1. Hermann Frischbier (1883) Preußisches Wörterbuch. Ost- und westpreußische Provinzialismen in alphabetischer Folge. Zweiter Band, Berlin: Verlag von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin, p. 85
2. Karl Nerger (1869) Grammatik des meklenburgischen Dialektes älterer and neuerer Zeit. Laut- und Flexionslehre, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, p. 31, 37, 62 (glossed as propinquus) and p. 153
3. Piirainen, Elisabeth; Elling, Wilhelm, editor (1992), “nao”, in Wörterbuch der westmünsterländischen Mundart (Beiträge des Heimatvereins Vreden zur Landes- und Volkskunde) (in German), Vreden: Heimatverein Vreden im Selbstverlag, →ISBN
4. Johann Friedrich Danneil (1859), “nao”, in Wörterbuch der altmärkisch-plattdeutschen Mundart (in German), Salzwedel: in Commission bei J. D. Schmidt, page 144
5. Friedrich, Fenna; Olthuis, Gerhard; Rieger, Gerda; Rötterink, Albert; Stegemerten, Gertrud, editor (2009), “noa”, in Grafschafter Platt: Wörterbuch Hochdeutsch-Plattdeutsch für Kindertageseinrichtungen und Grundschulen der Grafschaft Bentheim (Das Bentheimer Land) (in German), Uelsen: Groafschupper Plattproater Kring, →ISBN

---

Japanese

Romanization

nao

1. Rōmaji transcription of なお

---

Mandarin

Romanization

nao

1. Nonstandard spelling of nāo.
2. Nonstandard spelling of náo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of nǎo.
4. Nonstandard spelling of nào.

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.

---

Portuguese

Noun

nao f (plural naos)

1. Obsolete spelling of nau

---

Spanish

Etymology

From Catalan nau, from Latin navem. Doublet of nave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnao/ [ˈna.o]
• Rhymes: -ao
• Syllabification: na‧o

Noun

nao f (plural naos)

1. (poetic) a ship, a vessel
2. carrack

Further reading

• “nao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

---

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Prepositional phrase

nao

1. Contraction of na wao: and them, or with them
2. inflection of na:
   1. m-wa class object inflected plural
   2. m-mi class object inflected singular
   3. u class object inflected

See also

Object-inflected forms of na:

Pronominals	1s	2s	3s	1p	2p	3p
Object-inflected form	nami	nawe	naye	nasi	nanyi	nao

Classes	c1	c2/c3/c11/c14	c4/c6/c9	c5	c7	c8	c10	c15	c16	c17
Object-inflected form	naye	nao	nayo	nalo	nacho	navyo	nazo	nako	napo	namo

---

Tày

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [naːw˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [naːw˦˥]

Verb

nao

1. to warm oneself

   nao fầy ― to warm oneself with fire

   nao đét ― to sunbathe

2. to wait for

   nao lồm

   to get fresh air

   (literally, “to wait for wind”)

Adjective

nao

1. smoky

References

• Hoàng Văn Ma; Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

---

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [naːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [naːw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [naːw˧˧]

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

nao • (孬) (phonemic reduplicative nao nao)

1. anxious; uneasy

Derived terms

Derived terms

• nao núng
• nao nức
• nôn nao

 

See also

• náo

Pronoun

nao

1. (archaic, literary) Alternative form of nào (“which”)

   nơi nao ― where