Mao

• IPA^(key): /maʊ̯/

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• Rhymes: -aʊ

From Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

• (surname): Mow

Mao

1. A common surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, usually referring to Mao Zedong.
   • 1968, Edward S. Aarons, Assignment—Nuclear Nude‎^[1], Fawcett Publications, page 135:

     As the revered Mao has said, 'There cannot be two suns in the same sky.'

   • 1972, James Warren, “More Nixon Tapes A selection from recordings in the National Archives”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     RN: You think you should not have gone?
     TN: Yeah, I think it was a bad one to do. It was a good idea, but we shouldn't have gone to the University of Maryland … It was the motliest crew you've ever seen.
     RN: Well, that's my view about going to the universities. Well, I hope it didn't bother you too much.
     TN: No, it didn't. It was just—I know, I was just embarrassed because the Chinese issued a complaint.
     RN: A complaint about what?
     TN: Oh, you know, that they were being rude to the chairman—they were insulting Chairman Mao. There was nothing we could do! It's a free country!

2. A card game, named after Mao Zedong, in which players attempt to shed all their cards without violating certain unspoken rules.

Mao (third-person singular simple present Maos, present participle Maoing, simple past and past participle Maoed)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To kill and dispossess, esp. to kill and dispossess a landlord.

Mao

1. A Sino-Tibetan language.

   Synonyms: Emela, Sopvoma

Mao

1. A branch of the Omotic languages spoken in Ethiopia.

• MoA, Amo., -oma, oma, moa, Oma, MOA, Amo, AOM, AMO

Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

Mao m

1. Mao

• maoïsme
• maoïste

Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.o/
• IPA^(key): /maʊ̯/ (never in isolation, but sometimes when followed by another name)

Mao m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Maos or (with an article) Mao, feminine genitive Mao, plural Maos)

1. a transliteration of the Chinese surname 毛 (Máo); usually referring to Mao Zedong (in German Mao Tse-tung or rarer Mao Zedong)

• Maoismus
• Maoist
  • maoistisch

Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

Mao m

1. Mao

• maoismo
• maoista

Mao

1. Rōmaji transcription of まお

Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

Mao

1. Mao

• Maocu
  • Maoculuk