bao
/baʊ/
bao noun: any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine.
Noun (1)
bao (countable and uncountable, plural baos or bao)
Noun (2)
bao (uncountable)
- A mancala board game played in East Africa.
Noun (3) capitalized: BAO
BAO (plural BAOs)
- Initialism of baryon acoustic oscillation.
Proper noun capitalized: Bao
Bao (plural Baos)
- A surname.
bao meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu
bao in Hindi
- बाओ
bao in Tamil
- பாவோ
bao in Marathi
- बाओ
bao in Telugu
- బావో
More languagesFewer languages
- bao in Malayalam
- ബാവോ
- bao in Kannada
- ಬಾವೊ
- bao in Punjabi
- ਬਾਓ
- bao in Odia
- ବାଓ
- bao in Nepali
- बाओ
- bao in Tagalog
- siopao
- bao in Malay
- pau
- bao in Indonesian
- pau, bakpao
- bao in Thai
- ซาลาเปา saa-laa-bpao
- bao in Vietnamese
- bánh bao
- bao in Myanmar
- ပေါက်စီ paukci
Synonyms of bao
Forms of bao
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | baos |
| plural | bao |
| alternative form | bau |
| alternative form | bow |
| alternative form | pao |
| alternative form | pau |
| plural | BAOs |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Baos |
Origin of bao
Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (bāo) or Cantonese 包 (baau1). Cognate of Vietnamese bánh bao.
Borrowed from Swahili bao.
Phrases with bao
Questions about bao
- What does bao mean?
- Bao means any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine.
- What is bao in Hindi?
- Bao in Hindi is बाओ. See Bao meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bao?
- Bao can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bao?
- Bao is pronounced /baʊ/.
- What is the plural of bao?
- The plural of bao is baos.
Words near bao in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bao (page history and authors); BAO (page history and authors); Bao (page history and authors); bao (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bao (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bao (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bao (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bao (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bao (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bao (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bao (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bao (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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