tô

Borrowed from Bambara to or Dyula too.

• IPA^(key): /to/
• Homophones: tau, taux, tôt

tô m (plural tôs)

1. (cooking, West Africa) a dish made from pearl millet, sorghum, or maize, with water, & served as a cooked or boiled dough eaten with sauce

   Alternative form: to

Inherited from Latin tua.

tô (second-person singular possessive of feminine singular, of masculine singular to, of masculine plural tiei, of feminine plural tôs)

1. (used attributively) your; of yours
2. (used predicatively) yours
3. (used substantively) yours; the thing belonging to you

• lôr
• gno
• nestri
• so
• vuestri

• IPA^(key): /to/
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: tô

tô (second person singular possessive pronoun)

1. your.

• to

Probably related to tâ (“this”).

• IPA^(key): [to˥]
• Rhymes: -o˥
• Hyphenation: tô

tô

1. this, that

• tou (Portugal, eye dialect)

• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: tô

tô

1. (Brazil) informal spelling of estou

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [to˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tow˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tow˧˧]

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

(classifier cái, chiếc) tô • (𥗹)

1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) large bowl

   Synonyms: bát to, bát ô tô

   Antonyms: (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) chén, bát con, bát nhỏ

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

tô

1. (intransitive) to color (to apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing)

   Synonym: tô màu

2. (transitive, cosmetics, construction) to apply a thin layer of paste-like or powdered substance to something

   tô phấn ― to apply face powder; to plaster

   tô son ― to apply lipstick

   tô vôi ― to lime

3. (intransitive, loosely) to color (to give something color)

tô m (plural toeau or toeon)

1. misspelling of to