mão

mão f (plural mãos, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of man

• “mão”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

• maão

Inherited from Latin manum (“hand”).

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈmã.o/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmã.ʊ/

mão f (plural mãos)

1. hand
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 294 (facsimile):

     Como hũa moller q̇ iogaua os dados en pulla lançou hũa pedra aa omagen de ſ[ant]a mari[a] por q̇ perdera ⁊ parou un angeo de pedra que y eſtava a mão ⁊ reçibiu o colpe.

     How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.

• Fala: man
• Galician: man, mao
• Portuguese: mão (see there for further descendants)

• maõ (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mão (“hand”), from Latin manus (“hand”), from Proto-Italic *manus, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”), or perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *mon-u- (see the Proto-Italic entry). Cognate with Galician man, Spanish mano, Catalan mà, Occitan man, French main, Italian mano and Romanian mână.

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• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: mão

mão f (plural mãos)

1. hand
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 52:

     Apontara com a mão machucada.

     He had pointed it using his wounded hand.

2. forefoot (either of the front feet of a quadruped)
3. (card games) hand (a round of a card game)
4. coat (a covering of material, such as paint)

   Synonym: demão

5. (sports) leg (a single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest)
6. (soccer) handball (football offence)
7. (figurative) hand (an instance of helping)

   Synonyms: ajuda, auxílio

8. direction (of travel), way

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mão.

• Kabuverdianu: mo
• Kristang: mang
• Macanese: mám
• >? Saramaccan: máun

• “mão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

• “mão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maːw˦ˀ˥]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maːw˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maːw˨˩˦]

(classifier cái) mão

1. (Central Vietnam) alternative form of mạo (“headwear, hat, cap”)