Mao

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mao"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʊ̯/

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• Rhymes: -aʊ

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

Alternative forms

• (surname): Mow

Proper noun

Mao

1. A common surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, usually referring to Mao Zedong.
   • 1968, Edward S. Aarons, Assignment—Nuclear Nude‎^[1], Fawcett Publications, page 135:

     As the revered Mao has said, 'There cannot be two suns in the same sky.'

   • 1972, James Warren, “More Nixon Tapes A selection from recordings in the National Archives”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     RN: You think you should not have gone?
     TN: Yeah, I think it was a bad one to do. It was a good idea, but we shouldn't have gone to the University of Maryland … It was the motliest crew you've ever seen.
     RN: Well, that's my view about going to the universities. Well, I hope it didn't bother you too much.
     TN: No, it didn't. It was just—I know, I was just embarrassed because the Chinese issued a complaint.
     RN: A complaint about what?
     TN: Oh, you know, that they were being rude to the chairman—they were insulting Chairman Mao. There was nothing we could do! It's a free country!

2. A card game, named after Mao Zedong, in which players attempt to shed all their cards without violating certain unspoken rules.

Derived terms

• Madame Mao
• Maoism
• Maoist
• Mao Zedong Thought

 

Translations

Mao: the Chinese surname

• Arabic: مَاو (māw)
• Armenian: Մաո (Mao)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛 (zh) (Máo)

• Finnish: Mao
• Georgian: მაო (mao)
• Hebrew: מאו
• Hindi: माओ (māo)
• Japanese: 毛 (ja) (もう, Mō)
• Khmer: ម៉ៅ (km) (maw)
• Korean: 마오 (Mao) (transliteration), 모(毛) (ko) (Mo) (cognate)
• Lithuanian: Mao
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Manchu: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: माओ (māo)
• Mongolian: Мао (Mao)
• Persian: مائو (mâ'u)
• Russian: Ма́о (ru) (Máo), Ма́у (ru) (Máu)
• Thai: เหมา (th) (măo)
• Tibetan: མའོ (ma'o)
• Uyghur: ماۋ (maw)
• Vietnamese: Mao (毛 (vi))
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: Mauz

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Mao

1. A Sino-Tibetan language.

   Synonyms: Emela, Sopvoma

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Mao

1. A branch of the Omotic languages spoken in Ethiopia.

Anagrams

• MoA, Amo., -oma, oma, moa, Oma, MOA, Amo, AOM, AMO

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

Proper noun

Mao m

1. Mao

Derived terms

• maoïsme
• maoïste

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.o/
• IPA^(key): /maʊ̯/ (never in isolation, but sometimes when followed by another name)

Proper noun

Mao m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Maos or (with an article) Mao, feminine genitive Mao, plural Maos)

1. A transliteration of the Chinese surname 毛 (Máo); usually referring to Mao Zedong (in German Mao Tse-tung or rarer Mao Zedong)

Declension

Declension of Mao [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Mao	(eine)	(die)	Mao	(die)	Maos
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Maos, Mao1	(einer)	(der)	Mao	(der)	Maos
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Mao	(einer)	(der)	Mao	(den)	Maos
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Mao	(eine)	(die)	Mao	(die)	Maos

¹With an article.

Derived terms

• Maoismus
• Maoist
  • maoistisch

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

Proper noun

Mao m

1. Mao

Derived terms

• maoismo
• maoista

Japanese

Romanization

Mao

1. Rōmaji transcription of まお

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

Proper noun

Mao

1. Mao

Derived terms

• Maocu
  • Maoculuk