bão
See also: bao, báo, bào, bǎo, and bāo
Portuguese
Etymology
From bom, which is from Old Portuguese bõo, from Latin bonus.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɐ̃w̃/
Adjective
bão (feminine singular boa, masculine plural bão, feminine plural boa, comparable)
- (Brazil, chiefly Caipira) Pronunciation spelling of bom.
- 1993, Pedro Corrêa Cabral, Xambioá: Guerrilha no Araguaia, Editora Record:
- É um dismate na berada dum igarapé qui tem um poço bão de nóis toma um banho, fazê um fogo e dispois drumi.
- It is a clearing next to a small river where there is a good deep area for us to bathe in, start a fire and then sleep.
- É um dismate na berada dum igarapé qui tem um poço bão de nóis toma um banho, fazê um fogo e dispois drumi.
- 1993, Pedro Corrêa Cabral, Xambioá: Guerrilha no Araguaia, Editora Record:
- (Portugal, hypercorrect) Alternative form of bom
Interjection
bão?
- (colloquial, chiefly Caipira) how are you?
Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 暴 (“violent; vicious”; SV: bạo).
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓaːw˦ˀ˥]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓaːw˧˨]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɓaːw˨˩˦]
Noun
(classifier cơn) bão (暴, 雹, 𣋰, 𩙕)
- (weather) storm
- (medicine) colicky pain (in the abdomen)
Derived terms
- bão cát (“sandstorm”)
- bão tố (“gale”)
- bão tuyết (“snowy storm”)
- bão từ (“geomagnetic storm”)
Verb
bão
- (slang) to go to celebrate on the streets with motorbikes racing around the city (at times of national pride)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- đi bão
- gió bão
- mưa bão