tao

• dao

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道 (tao⁴).[1]

• IPA^(key): /daʊ/, /taʊ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊ

tao

1. (Chinese philosophy and religion) Alternative letter-case form of Tao: the way of nature or way to live one's life.
   • 2021, Olof G. Lidin, From Taoism to Einstein, page 196:

     The tao of Lao Tzu was a cosmic tao, inner and unwritten, a tao of Nature, while the tao of Confucius was moral and written.

tao (usually uncountable, plural taos)

1. (by extension) The art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.

   the tao of sex... the tao of the heart... the tao of integuments...

2. (historical, obsolete) Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.

• (harmonious skill) zen

• ananke

• AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, To'a, oat, toa

Unknown.

• Hyphenation: ta‧o
• IPA^(key): /taˈʔo/, [taˈʔo]

tào

1. to give

   Itao mo na sakuya an kuwarta.

   Just give me the money.

From Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

• Hyphenation: ta‧o
• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʔo/, [ˈta.ʔo]

táo

1. Alternative form of tawo

From Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

tao

1. person; human

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑoˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝o̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑo
• Syllabification^(key): ta‧o

tao

1. inflection of takoa:
   1. indicative present connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

From Chinese 道 (dào).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑo/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑo
• Syllabification^(key): ta‧o

tao

1. tao

• oat, ota

tao m (plural taos)

1. (philosophy) Tao

• “tao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

tao

1. thorn, splinter

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

táo

1. man; person

táo

1. to be born

táo

1. to look after or guard the house

taó

1. (Hiniráya, Binukídnon) to give; to donate; to make a present of

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒoː]
• Hyphenation: tao
• Rhymes: -oː

Borrowed from Mandarin 道 (dào, “way, path”).

tao

1. tao

• taoista
• taoizmus

Abbreviation from the name of the act[1] on társasági adó és osztalékadó (“corporate tax and dividend tax”).

tao

1. Acronym of társasági adó és osztalékadó.

• taózás
• taózik

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʔo/, [ˈtaː.ʔo], [ˈtaː.ʔu]
• Hyphenation: ta‧o

tao (plural tattao)

1. human; human being; person; man
2. people
3. individual

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1. Alternative form of datao: indefinite pronoun usually referring to the speaker

• dao

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese 道 (Dào, literally “the Way”) or (dào, "circuit").

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.o/
• Rhymes: -ao
• Hyphenation: tà‧o

tao m (invariable)

1. (philosophy) Tao

• taoismo
• taoista

• -ato

tao

1. Rōmaji transcription of たお

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀuq. Compare Indonesian taruh.

• IPA^(key): [to]

tao

1. act, action
2. preparation

tao

1. to do
2. to prepare, arm, take precautions

tao (tao⁵／tao⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄊㄠ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 萄

tao

1. Nonstandard spelling of tāo.
2. Nonstandard spelling of táo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǎo.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tào.

• 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.

tao

1. spear

Borrowed from Mandarin 道.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɔ/

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• Rhymes: -aɔ
• Syllabification: ta‧o

tao n (indeclinable)

1. (philosophy, Taoism) Tao (Chinese philosophical term)

   Synonym: dao

• tao in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French tao or English tao.

tao n (uncountable)

1. tao

tao

1. spear

• Audio (Kenya)

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tao (ma class, plural matao)

1. arch

• tauo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• tau — obsolete
• tawo — dialectal, Marinduque, Rizal

From earlier tawo, from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Cognate with Ilocano tao, Cebuano tawo, Thao caw, Tsou cou, and Motu tau.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtaʔo/ [ˈta.ʔo] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -aʔo
  • IPA^(key): /taˈʔo/ [tɐˈʔo] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: ta‧o

tao (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜂ)

1. human; human being; person; man
2. (colloquial) people
3. faces of a coin
4. (games) heads (in heads or tails)

   Synonym: tihaya

   Antonyms: ibon, taob

5. (colloquial) husband
6. person left alone in a place as a guard or caretaker (when others are away)

   Synonyms: bantay, tanod

taó (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜂ)

1. (obsolete) mortal; deadly; fatal

   Synonyms: nakamamatay, mortal, (archaic) palana

• tumao

• “tao”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*Cau”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

• (North Central Vietnam) tau
• (abbreviation) t

From Proto-Vietic *soː (“I; me”). Cognate with Thavung โซว.

There are 1st person single pronouns in Northern Austroasiatic branches with back vocalism and null-initial such as Mang ʔuː⁴, Khmu [Cuang] ʔoʔ, Riang [Sak] ʔoʔ¹, Pnar o. However, the only case of competing *s- vs. null-onset in Vietic is Proto-Vietic *suh ~ *ʔuh (“nest”), which gave rise to Vietnamese tổ and ổ respectively.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [taːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [taːw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [taːw˧˧]

tao • (蚤, 騷, 遭)

1. (impolite, familiar, disrespectful or hostile) I/me

   Antonyms: mày, mi

• toa

From Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

tao

1. person; human