pao
pao noun: a fairy chess piece which moves identically to the xiangqi cannon, moving orthogonally and must hop over a piece of either side to capture.
Noun (1)
pao (plural paos)
- A fairy chess piece which moves identically to the xiangqi cannon, moving orthogonally and must hop over a piece of either side to capture.
Noun (2) capitalized: PAO
PAO (plural PAOs)
- Initialism of period after opening.
- Initialism of polyalphaolefin.
Proper noun capitalized: Pao
Pao (plural Paos)
- A surname.
pao meaning in Urdu, Punjabi and Gujarati
pao in Urdu
- پاو
pao in Punjabi
- ਪਾਵੋ
pao in Gujarati
- પાવો
Forms of pao
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | paos |
| plural | PAOs |
| alternative form | PαO |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Paos |
Origin of pao
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 炮 (pào).
Phrases with pao
Questions about pao
- What does pao mean?
- Pao means a fairy chess piece which moves identically to the xiangqi cannon, moving orthogonally and must hop over a piece of either side to capture.
- What is pao in Urdu?
- Pao in Urdu is پاو. See Pao meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is pao?
- Pao can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of pao?
- The plural of pao is paos.
Words near pao in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pao (page history and authors); PAO (page history and authors); Pao (page history and authors); pao (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pao (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pao (Gujarati, 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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