vao

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vao terms

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.

vao

1. genitive singular of vagu

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• vau
• véa

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

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

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

• 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

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

vao

1. new (recently made or created), novel

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

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

vao m (plural vaos)

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

• non achar vao (“to find a solution”)

• Galician: vao
• Portuguese: vau

• Universo Cantigas - "vao"

vao

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• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University

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