nao

• IPA^(key): /naʊ/
• Rhymes: -aʊ
• Homophone: now

Borrowed from Spanish nao.

nao (plural naos)

1. (nautical, historical, rare) A Spanish or Portuguese carrack.
   • 2007, Eusebio L. Rodrigues, Love and Samsāra:

     I got vivid descriptions of the sea battle at Chaul from the Mamluk sailors and the Ottoman gunners so that I could clearly visualise the Mamluk galleys and the Ottoman guns battling the Portuguese naos at the entrance of the Kundalika river.

nao

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of now.

nao

1. (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of now.

• AON, Noa, OAN, ONA, Ona, ano-, noa

Cognate with Dutch na.

nao

1. after

Attested since 1350; from Old Catalan or Old Occitan nau, from Latin navis. Doublet of nave. Compare also Portuguese nau.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaʊ̯/

nao f (plural naos)

1. (nautical, historical) a three or four-masted sailing ship used all along the 15th century and early 16th; carrack
   • 1384, M. A. Comesaña Martínez, editor, O tombo do Hospital e Ermida de santa María do Camiño de Pontevedra, Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 99:

     nao ou baixel ou outro navio que a esta villa viesen que trouxese sal des huun milleyro e medio de sal arriba que lles desen tres faneigas grandes de sal aos ditos lazerados

     carrack or vessel or other ship that to this town came bringing salt, from a thousand and a hald of salt up, they shall give three large bushels of salt to said lepers

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “nao”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “nao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nao”, 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), “nao”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Low Prussian: nâ,^[1] noa, nah
• Mecklenburgisch: nå, nâ,^[2] nah
• Westphalian:

  East Westphalian: näu (Ravensberg)

  Sauerländisch, East Westphalian (Lippe), South Westphalian (Dortmund): no

  Sauerländisch: noh (Hochsauerland, Olpe)

• Eastphalian: noah (Wedemark)

From Middle Low German nâch, nâ, from Old Saxon nāh.

nao^[3][4][5]

1. (Brandenburgisch, including Altmärkisch; Westphalian, including Westmünsterländisch, Münsterland) to, towards

   Synonym: tau

nao

1. Rōmaji transcription of なお

nao

1. nonstandard spelling of nāo
2. nonstandard spelling of náo
3. nonstandard spelling of nǎo
4. nonstandard spelling of nào

• 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.

nao f (plural naos)

1. obsolete spelling of nau

Borrowed from Catalan nau, from Latin navem. Doublet of nave.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnao/ [ˈna.o]
• Rhymes: -ao
• Syllabification: na‧o

nao f (plural naos)

1. (poetic) a ship, a vessel

   Synonym: buque

2. carrack

   Synonym: carraca

• → English: nao

• “nao”, 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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nao

1. contraction of na wao; wa class_(II) inflected form of na; and them, with them
2. m class_(III)/u class_(XI) inflected form of na; and it, with it

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

nao

1. to warm oneself

   nao fầy ― to warm oneself with fire

   nao đét ― to sunbathe

2. to wait for

   nao lồm

   to get fresh air

   (literally, “to wait for wind”)

nao

1. smoky

• Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
• 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]

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

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nao • (孬, 𣻖) (diminutive reduplication nao nao)

1. anxious; uneasy

• náo

nao • (𱜢, 㝹)

1. alternative form of nào (“which”)

   nơi nao ― where