# nao
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naʊ/
* Rhymes: -aʊ
* Homophone: now

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish nao.

#### Noun

nao (plural naos)
* (nautical, historical, rare) A Spanish or Portuguese carrack.
** 2007, Eusebio L. Rodrigues, Love and Samsāra:I got vivid descriptions of the sea battle at Chaul from the Mamluk sailors and the Ottoman gunners so that I could clearly visualise the Mamluk galleys and the Ottoman guns battling the Portuguese naos at the entrance of the Kundalika river.

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

nao
* (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of now

#### Adverb

nao
* (Internet slang, humorous) Alternative form of now

### Anagrams

* AON, Noa, OAN, ONA, Ona, ano-, noa

## Dutch Low Saxon
### Etymology

Cognate with Dutch na.

### Preposition

nao
* after

## Galician
### Etymology

Attested since 1350; from Old Catalan or Old Occitan nau, from Latin navis. Doublet of nave. Compare also Portuguese nau.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnaʊ̯/

### Noun

nao f (plural naos)
* (nautical, historical) a three or four-masted sailing ship used all along the 15th century and early 16th; carrack
** 1384, M. A. Comesaña Martínez, editor, O tombo do Hospital e Ermida de santa María do Camiño de Pontevedra, Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 99:nao ou baixel ou outro navio que a esta villa viesen que trouxese sal des huun milleyro e medio de sal arriba que lles desen tres faneigas grandes de sal aos ditos lazeradoscarrack or vessel or other ship that to this town came bringing salt, from a thousand and a hald of salt up, they shall give three large bushels of salt to said lepers

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “nao”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “nao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nao”, 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), “nao”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## German Low German
### Alternative forms

* Low Prussian: nâ, noa, nah
* Mecklenburgisch: nå, nâ, nah
* Westphalian:
    East Westphalian: näu (Ravensberg)
    Sauerländisch, East Westphalian (Lippe), South Westphalian (Dortmund): no
    Sauerländisch: noh (Hochsauerland, Olpe)
* Eastphalian: noah (Wedemark)

### Etymology

From Middle Low German nâch, nâ, from Old Saxon nāh.

### Preposition

nao
* (Brandenburgisch, including Altmärkisch; Westphalian, including Westmünsterländisch, Münsterland) to, towards
    Synonym: tau

### References

* ↑ Hermann Frischbier (1883) Preußisches Wörterbuch. Ost- und westpreußische Provinzialismen in alphabetischer Folge. Zweiter Band, Berlin: Verlag von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin, p. 85
* ↑ Karl Nerger (1869) Grammatik des meklenburgischen Dialektes älterer and neuerer Zeit. Laut- und Flexionslehre, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, p. 31, 37, 62 (glossed as propinquus) and p. 153
* ↑ Piirainen, Elisabeth, Elling, Wilhelm, editors (1992), “nao”, in Wörterbuch der westmünsterländischen Mundart (Beiträge des Heimatvereins Vreden zur Landes- und Volkskunde; 40) (in German), Vreden: Heimatverein Vreden im Selbstverlag, →ISBN
* ↑ Johann Friedrich Danneil (1859) “nao”, in Wörterbuch der altmärkisch-plattdeutschen Mundart (in German), Salzwedel: in Commission bei J. D. Schmidt, page 144
* ↑ Friedrich, Fenna, Olthuis, Gerhard, Rieger, Gerda, Rötterink, Albert, Stegemerten, Gertrud, editors (2009), “noa”, in Grafschafter Platt: Wörterbuch Hochdeutsch-Plattdeutsch für Kindertageseinrichtungen und Grundschulen der Grafschaft Bentheim (Das Bentheimer Land) (in German), volume 179, Uelsen: Groafschupper Plattproater Kring, →ISBN

## Japanese
### Romanization

nao
* Rōmaji transcription of なお

## Mandarin
### Romanization

nao
* Nonstandard spelling of nāo.
* Nonstandard spelling of náo.
* Nonstandard spelling of nǎo.
* Nonstandard spelling of nào.

#### 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.

## Portuguese
### Noun

nao f (plural naos)
* Obsolete spelling of nau.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan nau, from Latin navem. Doublet of nave.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnao/ [ˈna.o]
* Rhymes: -ao
* Syllabification: na‧o

### Noun

nao f (plural naos)
* (poetic) a ship, a vessel
    Synonym: buque
* carrack
    Synonym: carraca

#### Descendants

* → English: nao

### Further reading

* “nao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Prepositional phrase

nao
* Contraction of na wao; wa class$_{(II)}$ inflected form of na; and them, with them
* m class$_{(III)}$/u class$_{(XI)}$ inflected form of na; and it, with it

### See also

| | | Singular | Plural |
| 1st person | 1st person | nami | nasi |
| 2nd person | 2nd person | nawe | nanyi |
| 3rd person | m-wa$_{(I/II)}$ | naye | nao |
| 3rd person | m-mi$_{(III/IV)}$ | nao | nayo |
| 3rd person | ji-ma$_{(V/VI)}$ | nalo | nayo |
| 3rd person | ki-vi$_{(VII/VIII)}$ | nacho | navyo |
| 3rd person | n$_{(IX/X)}$ | nayo | nazo |
| 3rd person | u$_{(XI)}$ | nao | see n$_{(X)}$ or ma$_{(VI)}$ |
| 3rd person | ku$_{(XV/XVII)}$ | nako | |
| 3rd person | pa$_{(XVI)}$ | napo | |
| 3rd person | mu$_{(XVIII)}$ | namo | |
| For a full table, see Appendix:Swahili personal pronouns. ||||

## Tày
### Pronunciation

* (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [naːw˧˧]
* (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [naːw˦˥]

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

nao
* to warm oneself
    nao fầy ― to warm oneself with fire
    nao đét ― to sunbathe
* to wait for
    nao lồmto get fresh air(literally, “to wait for wind”)

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

nao
* smoky

### References

* Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
* Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
* Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [naːw˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [naːw˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [naːw˧˧]

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Adjective

nao • (孬) (diminutive reduplication nao nao)
* anxious; uneasy

##### Derived terms

* nao núng
* nao nức
* nôn nao

##### See also

* náo

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

nao
* (archaic, literary) Alternative form of nào (“which”)
    nơi nao ― where