fao

Abbreviation of English Faroese.

fao

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Faroese.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Faroese terms

fao

1. Abbreviation of for the attention of; used on an address or label, specifies an individual to whom the document should be delivered, usually put on when the address is of an organisation.

• Foa, OFA, oaf, of a

Borrowed from Vietnamese phở.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfao/
• Rhymes: -ao
• Hyphenation: fa‧o

fao (accusative singular faon, plural faoj, accusative plural faojn)

1. pho (Vietnamese soup with a beef base)

   Kiun vi preferus manĝi: fao aŭ rameno?

   Which would you prefer to eat: pho or ramen?

From Proto-Polynesian *faqo (compare with Hawaiian hao (“iron, horn”), Maori whao (“chisel, nail”), Tuamotuan pao), from Proto-Oceanic *paqot (compare with Fijian ivako (“nail”)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqət (“chisel”) (compare with Malay pahat, Tagalog paet)^[1]

fao

1. tip, point
2. scissors

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “fao” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.o]

fao

1. (transitive) to pull out

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

fao

1. first-person singular present indicative of far

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.o/

fao

1. a father

The term fao is used for referring to a father, whereas the term baba is used for addressing one's father.

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics