Meaning

4 senses

  1. A common surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, usually referring to Mao Zedong.

    Ма́оMáo, Ма́уMáu

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

  3. A Sino-Tibetan language.

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

Examples

13 sentences

  1. Mao knows everything.

    ruМао всё знает.

    deMao weiß alles.

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  2. How many people did Mao murder?

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  3. My cat won't shut up about Mao.

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  4. Deng Xiaoping came into power after Mao Zedong.

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  5. Yanni included an image of Mao in his painting.

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Translations

1 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
Mao: the Chinese surname:

Origin

From Mandarin 毛 (Máo). Borrowed from Tibeto-Burman. Borrowed from Amharic Mao (“indigeno

From Mandarin 毛 (Máo).

Borrowed from Tibeto-Burman.

Borrowed from Amharic Mao (“indigenous ethnonym”).

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Forms

Synonyms

2 synonyms
EmelaSopvoma

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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