mau

mau

1. head

• Barunggam body parts

From Latin malus.

mau (feminine maule, masculine plural maus, feminine plural maules, comparative peire, superlative peire)

1. bad

• maufleit
• mauroge
• mauvoillance
• mauvoillant

• bon

• mauvois

From Latin male

mau (comparative peis, superlative peis)

1. bad

From Latin malus.

mau m (plural maus, antonym bein)

1. evil

• bein

mau

1. the sound a cat makes; meow

• -uma, mua

Probably a blend of matt +‎ flau, maybe with influence from mauen in the older sense of "to be weepy/annoying."

• IPA^(key): /maʊ̯/
• Rhymes: -aʊ̯

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mau (comparative mauer, superlative am mauesten or am mausten) (informal)

1. queasy, poor, poorly, ill, bad, lousy

   Mir ist mau. ― I feel queasy/ill/poorly.

   Ich fühle mich mau ― I feel queasy/ill/poorly.

   Die Lage ist mau. ― The situation is bad.

   Die Ergebnisse sind mau. ― The results are poor.

2. down, blue

   Ich fühle mich mau. ― I feel down/blue.

mau

1. badly, bad
2. slack

   Die Geschäfte gehen mau. ― Business is slack.

• mau in Duden online

From Portuguese mau. Cognates with Kabuverdianu mau.

mau

1. bad

mau

1. Plural marker of nouns, used after he, determiners, and numerals.

   he mau lio ― horses

   kēlā mau hale ― those houses

   ko lākou mau kūpuna ― their grandparents

mau

1. (stative) always, perpetual
2. (stative) to continue

mau

1. (informal, auxiliary) Contraction of mahu.

   Synonym: ingin

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *mlu̯ɛjH (“soft”). Cognate with White Hmong mos.

mau 

1. soft

mau

1. Rōmaji transcription of まう

From Portuguese mau.

mau

1. bad

mau

1. (informal, auxiliary) Contraction of mahu.

From Old Portuguese mao, from Latin malus, from Proto-Italic.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaw/

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• Homophone: mal (some accents)
• Rhymes: -aw

mau (feminine singular má, masculine plural maus, feminine plural más, comparable)

1. bad

   Ele é um mau condutor. ― He is a bad driver.

   Ela tem maus hábitos. ― She has bad habits.

2. evil, wicked

   Caim era mau. ― Cain was evil.

3. harmful

• (adverb) mal
• (comparative) pior
• (superlative) péssimo

• bem
• bom

mau

1. supreme

• 'ariki mau

mau

1. opinion

mau

1. plural marker after a noun; many, much

mau

1. hold

From Tolai mau (“banana”).

mau

1. ripe.

• SARMENTO, Leila Lauar. Gramática em textos. 2nd edition. São Paulo, Brazil: Moderna, 2005.

Cognate with Muong bau (“dense, thick”), Chut [Cuối Chăm] [baw¹] and Arem [ubaw] ("thick").

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

mau (㕰, 䋃, 毛, 𣭻, 𨖧, 𫐿, 𫑋)

1. fast, quick
2. (in certain phrases and expressions) dense

mau (㕰, 䋃, 毛, 𣭻, 𨖧, 𫐿, 𫑋)

1. fast, quickly

   Synonym: nhanh

• chóng
• lẹ

• māu, maū
• maup, maupə

mau

1. water

• Introducción a la lengua yanomami: morfología (1996), page 104: mau u : agua cln
• B. Albert, ‎G. Gomez, Saúde Yanomami: um manual etnolingüístico (1997), page 233: māu
• M. Müller, ‎J. Serowë, ‎B. Manara, Lengua y cultura Yanomami: diccionario ilustrado (2007), pages 175 and 410: maū u; mau u
• HG 1 [maup], HG 2 [maũ ũ, maaupə] (see also ASJP 1 [maup], ASJP 2 [mau; maup3, using '3' for 'ə'])