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dao
( international standards ) ISO 639-3 language code forDaai Chin . A Chinese dao and scabbard. FromChinese 刀 ( dāo , literally“ single-edged blade ” ) . Possibly adoublet ofdah
dao (plural daos
Any of various traditional Chinese swords with a curved, single-edged blade, primarily used for slashing and chopping. From thepinyin romanization ofChinese 道 ( Dào , literally“ theWay ” ) or (dào , "circuit ").
dao
( Chinese philosophy ) Alternative form ofTao : theway ofnature and/or theideal way tolive one's life .dao (usuallyuncountable ,plural daos
( historical ) Synonym ofcircuit :various administrative divisions ofimperial andearly Republican China .dao (plural daos
Alternative form ofdah ( “ Burmese knife or sword ” ) .Likely related to one of the preceding words ("Chinese sword", "Burmese knife") or from Indo-Aryan. CompareBengali দাও ( daō ) .
A Naga dao and scabbard. dao (plural daos
Asword and construction tool of theNaga people ofIndia , which has a wooden hilt and grows wider from the narrow hilt to the wide, flat tip. FromTagalog Cebuano dao
dao (plural daos
Dracontomelon dao argus pheasant tree .The hard strong wood of the dao used for veneers and cabinetwork. Feminine form ofdoi Latin duae duo
dao f masculine doi
two dao
dao Dracontomelon dao the edible fruit of this tree the wood from this tree dao
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nonstandard spelling ofdāo nonstandard spelling ofdáo nonstandard spelling ofdǎo nonstandard spelling ofdào Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *daqu ( “ a tree:Dracontomelum edule ” ) . CompareCebuano dao Kapampangan dau Indonesian dahu
daó (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜂ
dao tree ( Dracontomelon dao ) wood from thedao tree dao (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜏ᜔
obsolete spelling ofdaw “dao ”, inKWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino ,Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino ,2025 “dao ”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph ,2018 Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*daqu₁ ”, in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–),→DOI FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *zauq
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far Warneck, J. (1906).Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch . Batavia: Landesdrukkerij,p. 45 . dao
above ( North Central Vietnam ) đao ( no lenition ) FromProto-Vietic *-taːw Old Chinese 刀 OC *C.tˤaw SV :đao Vietnamese đao ( “ knife ” ) .
This word was borrowed at a stage when the Sinitic word still retained the preinitial, thus causing lenition:*-t- > Middle Vietnamesedĕao [ðj-] > modern[z- ~ j-] . The Sino-Vietnamese readingđao 刀 MC đao , although formally identical to the more recent Sino-Vietnamese reading, belongs to the same stratum asdao , as indicated by the meaning "knife", due to the fact that these dialects did not undergo lenition to as large an extent.
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