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bao

nounnounattested in dialogue

  • //baʊ//

Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine

noun

  1. 1

    Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine

  2. 2

    A sandwich or stuffed bun made with this bread

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (bāo) or Cantonese 包 (baau1). Cognate of Vietnamese bánh bao.

noun

  1. 1

    A mancala board game played in East Africa.

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili bao.

Forms

plural
baos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).