sao

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sao"

Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *sahuq (“words, speech”).

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: sa‧o

Noun

sao

  1. speech
  2. (linguistics) language
    Iniiloko a sao
    Ilocano language
  3. word

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • agsao (“to speak; to talk”)
  • isao (“to say; to express”)
  • kasao (“speaker”)
  • makisao (“to speak; to talk; to converse”)
  • saoen (“to speak; to utter”)
  • sao-sao (“rumor; hearsay; idle talk”)

Japanese

Romanization

sao

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さお

Mandarin

Romanization

sao

  1. Nonstandard spelling of sāo.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of sǎo.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of sào.

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.

Tagalog

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: sa‧o
  • IPA(key): /saˈʔo/, [sɐˈʔo]

Noun

saó

  1. (nautical) mooring cable or chains; cable for mooring ships to the pier when at anchor

Vietnamese

Pronunciation
  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [saːw˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʂaːw˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʂaːw˧˧] ~ [saːw˧˧]
  • Audio (Hồ Chí Minh City)(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle Vietnamese ſao.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 牢 (MC lɑu) (modern SV: lao), so the older form of the word was likely *C-raːw (where *C is nonspecific consonant).

Adverb

sao • (吵, 牢, 𡫡)

  1. why
    Synonyms: răng, tại sao, vì sao
    Sao nó bảo không đến?
    Why did he say he wouldn’t come?
  2. how
    Synonyms: răng, làm sao
    Sao tao biết được?
    How should I know?
    Sao làm được hay vậy?
    How did you do that?
  3. what; what is it; what now
    Synonyms: làm sao, gì, cái gì
    Sao?
    Sao trăng gì !?
    Wut?
    The hell you mean, "wut"?
  4. whatever
    Sao cũng được.
    Whatever / Anything will do.
See also
Vietnamese demonstratives
Laurence Thompson (1965), Vietnamese Grammar
UnspecifiedClose to the
speaker or
newly introduced		Remote,
already identified
PLACE
đ- (first register)		 đâu
‘wherever’		 đây
‘here’		 đấy
‘there’
REFERENCE
n- (second register)		 nào
‘whichever’		 này
‘this’		 nọ
‘that’
PROPORTION
b- (first register)		 bao
‘to whatever extent’		 bây
‘to this extent’		 bấy
‘to that extent’
MANNER
s- (first register)
v- (second register)		 sao
‘however’		 vầy
‘this way’		 vậy
‘that way’
Nguyễn Phú Phong (1992), “Vietnamese Demonstratives Revisited”
D•
(Indefinite)		D1
(Proximal)		D2
(Medial)		D3
(Distal)
+NOM(inal) đâu
place-what		 đây
place-this		 đấy
place-that1
±NOM(inal) đó
(place-)that1		 kia
(place-)that2
–NOM(inal) nào
what		 nầy
this		 nấy/ấy
that1		 nọ
that2

Adjective

sao

  1. problematic, bad
    Có sao lắm không?
    Is it very bad?
    Không sao đâu.
    No problem.
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Vietnamese ſao, from Proto-Vietic *k-raːw. Cognate with Muong khao. Might represent a Kra-Dai or Austronesian substratum, compare Proto-Tai *t.naːwᴬ (“star”), Proto-Hlai *ɾaːw (“star”) and Proto-Austronesian *qajaw (“day”).

It is a semantic loan from English star, in the senses of “celebrity; actor”.

Alternative forms
  • (Northeastern Vietnam) thao

Noun

(classifier vì, ngôi) sao • (𬁖 - ⿰日牢, 𣋀, 𣇟, 𤚧)

  1. star (luminous celestial body)
  2. asterisk
    toán sao ― an "asterisked" math problem (marked with an asterisk); a difficult math problem

Noun

(classifier ngôi) sao • (𬁖 - ⿰日牢, 𣋀, 𣇟, 𤚧)

  1. star (celebrity)
  2. star (actor)
See also

West Makian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈs̪a.o/

Verb

sao

  1. (transitive) to burn
  2. (transitive) to roast (over fire)

Conjugation
Conjugation of sao (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tasao masao asao
2nd person nasao fasao
3rd person inanimate isao dasao
animate
imperative nasao, sao fasao, sao

References
  • James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics
  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as sao and saw)
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