báo

• bao — nonstandard

báo (bao², Zhuyin ㄅㄠˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㼎
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嫑
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瓟
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 窇
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薄
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 雹

• IPA^(key): /baːu̯/

báo f pl

1. genitive plural of bó

From Proto-Tai *ɓaːwᴮ (“unmarried man”). Cognate with Lao ບ່າວ (bāo), Northern Thai ᨷ᩵ᩤ᩠ᩅ, Lü ᦢᦱᧁᧈ (ḃaaw¹), Tai Dam ꪚ꪿ꪱꪫ, Shan မၢဝ်ႇ (màao) or ဝၢဝ်ႇ (wàao), Ahom 𑜉𑜨𑜧 (mow) or 𑜉𑜨𑜧𑜈𑜫 (moww), Zhuang mbauq, Thai บ่าว (bàao).

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

báo (𪽕)

1. boy

   báo ké ― bachelor (literally, “old boy”)

   báo đai ― chaste

   nhằng báo ― unmarried man

   báo quan luông ― big mandarin

báo (𪽕)

1. male

   lục báo ― boy (roughly more than 15 years old)

   đây báo ― handsome

2. beautiful; elegant

   cần báo ― handsome person

• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[3] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[4] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːw˦˥]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 豹 (“leopard”). Doublet of beo.

(classifier con) báo

1. leopard
2. (by extension) spotted panther; a jaguar or a snow leopard
3. (by extension) cheetah

Sino-Vietnamese word from 報 (“to report; to tell”).

báo

1. to report; to tell

(classifier tờ) báo

1. newspaper
2. magazine

Sino-Vietnamese word from 報 (“to repay; to thank”). The noun sense is a further development from the verbal shortening of báo hại.

báo

1. to repay someone;
2. (informal) short for báo hại (“to harm someone unintentionally; to cause trouble for someone”)

(classifier chú) báo

1. (colloquial) someone who has the tendency to get themselves into troubles and spreads those troubles to others by association

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