nao

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nao"

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish nao.

Noun

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.

Etymology 2

Adjective

nao

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

Adverb

nao

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

Anagrams

• AON, Noa, OAN, ONA, Ona, ano-, noa

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch na.

Preposition

nao

1. after

Galician

Replica of the Santa Maria, a nao

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaʊ̯/

Noun

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

References

• 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

German Low German

Alternative forms

• Low Prussian: nâ, noa, nah
• Mecklenburgisch: nå, nâ, nah
• Westphalian:

  East Westphalian: näu (Ravensberg)

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

  Sauerländisch: noh (Hochsauerland, Olpe)

• Eastphalian: noah (Wedemark)

Etymology

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

Preposition

nao

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

   Synonym: tau

Japanese

Romanization

nao

1. Rōmaji transcription of なお

Mandarin

Romanization

nao

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

Usage notes

• 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.

Portuguese

Noun

nao f (plural naos)

1. Obsolete spelling of nau.

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nao f (plural naos)

1. (poetic) a ship, a vessel

   Synonym: buque

2. carrack

   Synonym: carraca

Descendants

• → English: nao

Further reading

• “nao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Prepositional phrase

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

See also

Object-inflected forms of na

		Singular	Plural
1st person		nami	nasi
2nd person		nawe	nanyi
3rd person	m-wa(I/II)	naye	nao
	m-mi(III/IV)	nao	nayo
	ji-ma(V/VI)	nalo	nayo
	ki-vi(VII/VIII)	nacho	navyo
	n(IX/X)	nayo	nazo
	u(XI)	nao	see n(X) or ma(VI)
	ku(XV/XVII)	nako
	pa(XVI)	napo
	mu(XVIII)	namo
For a full table, see Appendix:Swahili personal pronouns.

Tày

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Verb

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”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

nao

1. smoky

References

• 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
• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[3] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

nao • (孬) (diminutive reduplication nao nao)

1. anxious; uneasy

Derived terms

Derived terms

• nao núng
• nao nức
• nôn nao

 

See also

• náo

Etymology 2

Pronoun

nao

1. (archaic, literary) Alternative form of nào (“which”)

   nơi nao ― where