vao

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vao"

Translingual

Symbol

vao

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Vao.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vao terms

English

Noun

vao (plural vaos)

1. (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves analogously to the xiangqi cannon and bishop, moving diagonally and must hop over a piece of either side to capture.

Estonian

Noun

vao

1. genitive singular of vagu

Galician

Alternative forms

• vau
• véa

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vao, from Latin vadum (“ford”), from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbao/ [ˈbɑ.ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ao
• Hyphenation: va‧o

Noun

vao m (plural vaos)

1. ford
2. sandbar
3. (anatomy) flank (flesh between the last rib and the hip)

   Synonyms: illar, illarga

4. (nautical) space in between two ribs

Derived terms

• Bao
• Vao
• Vaos

References

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

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)baqəʀu, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)baqəʀuh.

Adjective

vao

1. new (recently made or created), novel

Related terms

	focus (voice)
agent (active)	man-form	manavao
	mi-form	—
	om-form	—
patient (passive)	vaozina
	alternate	havaozina
	a-form	—
	voa-form	—
	tafa-form	—
goal (relative)	an-form	avaozana
	i-form	—

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vadum, from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom.

Pronunciation

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.o/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.ʊ/
• Rhymes: -ao

Noun

vao m (plural vaos)

1. ford; shallow (part of a river shallow enough to be crossed by foot)

Derived terms

• non achar vao

Descendants

• Galician: vao
• Portuguese: vau

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "vao"

Zou

Noun

vao

1. thread

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf