chao

From Old Galician-Portuguese chão, from Latin planus (“flat”).

• chan

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃaʊ̯], [ˈt͡ʃaw]

chao m (plural chaos)

1. alternative form of chan (“plain, plateau; ground”)

• Chao

chao (feminine chá, masculine plural chaos, feminine plural chás)

1. alternative form of chan (“flat”)
2. absolutely

Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”), possibly through Argentinian Spanish. Doublet of escravo and eslavo.

• chau

chao

1. (colloquial) bye, goodbye

   Synonym: abur

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chao”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chao”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chao”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chao”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chan”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• chau

Borrowed from French tchao, German tschau, Italian ciao, Spanish chau (but only in the sense of "goodbye").

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃao/

chao

1. (neologism, often informal) goodbye

   Synonyms: adio, til rivido, til

   Antonyms: saluto, hola

chao

1. nonstandard spelling of chāo
2. nonstandard spelling of cháo
3. nonstandard spelling of chǎo
4. nonstandard spelling of chào

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

• chau

Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”). Doublet of esclavo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaw/ [ˈt͡ʃaw]
• Rhymes: -aw

chao

1. (Latin America, some parts of Spain) bye, goodbye

• “chao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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chao

1. ki class_(VII) inflected form of -ao

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaːw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [caːw˧˧]

From a form of Hokkien 醬 / 酱 (chiùⁿ) (SV: tương). Compare Thai เต้าเจี้ยว (dtâo-jîao), Lao ເຕົ້າຈ້ຽວ (taochiāu), Malay taoco, taucu. Doublet of tương.

chao • (洲)

1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) fermented bean curd

   Synonym: đậu phụ nhự

Compare Halang chiao.

chao • (洲)

1. to glide (in the air)

• choa