Macau

macau English thumb|Map including MACAU zh 澳門 (Army Map Service AMS, 1954) Alternative forms en Macao Amacao Etymology en pt Macau, from en nan-hbl -. See pt Macau for more info. Pronunciation en /məˈkaʊ/ mə-kou′Macao or Macau 1105 2 Macao or Macau (mu̇kou′),Ma·cao 437 1 Ma·cao (mə-kou′), en aʊ 2 en Macau pronunciation.mp3 CA Proper noun en Q14773en city/special administrative region/and/peninsula c/China west of Hong Kong. en 12 September 2015 Jochen Faget Crisis in China's gambling paradise https://web.archive.org/web/20150912180128/https://www.dw.com/en/crisis-in-chinas-gambling-paradise/a-18263641 12 September 2015 https://www.dw.com/en/crisis-in-chinas-gambling-paradise/a-18263641 w:DW News Open 24 hours a day and seven days a week, Macau's 35 casinos entertain around 30 million visitors each year, making over 30 billion euros in revenue. These are figures which make the US gambling city of Las Vegas look like a desert village.Macau is the only place in China where gambling is officially permitted. Until the end of 1999, the peninsula was a Portuguese colony. Since it was handed back to China, the city of 600,000 people located at the mouth of the Pearl River has been a largely autonomous Special Administrative Region (SAR). en March 22, 2023 Nicole Hong; Alexandra Stevenson China Approves an mRNA Covid Vaccine, Its First w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230323190455/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/business/china-mrna-covid-vaccine.html 23 March 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/business/china-mrna-covid-vaccine.html 0362-4331 1645522 Business At the height of the Covid wave, some mainland residents ventured across the border to the Chinese territory of Macau to find foreign-made mRNA vaccines. en Q3916279en historical en a <<former>> Portuguese <<colony>> in modern southern <<c/China>> between 1557 and 1999. en 1598 W. P. 24 Of the courſe out of the Hauen of Macau in China to the Iſland of Pulo Tymon, & the ſtraight of Sincapura. The Nauigation of the Portingales into the Eaſt Indies https://archive.org/details/iohnhuighenvanli00lins_0/page/305/ London John Wolfe 349 https://archive.org/details/iohnhuighenvanli00lins_0/page/349/ When you depart from Macau to ye other coaſt, you must put out at the Eaſt chanel, if the wind bee Northweſt, if not, then you cannot paſſe, that way, but you muſt ſayle thorough the ſouthweſt chanel, which is a good way to paſſe out, running from the point of Varella, right unto the land on the other ſide of Macau, en 1671 Arnoldus Montanus w:John Ogilby Atlas Chinensis https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_atlas-chinensis-being-a_dapper-olfert_1671/ nl London Tho. Johnson 11283434 531 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_atlas-chinensis-being-a_dapper-olfert_1671/page/531/ SOuthward from the County of Quancheufu, lie many ſmall Iſlands in the Sea ; on one of which, being a little hanging Iſle, or rather a Rock, joyn'd to a great Iſland, lieth the City Makao, otherwiſe call'd Amacao, Machao, and Makau, poſſeſs'd by the Portugueſe, on a Promontory, ſo naturally Fortifi'd, that it is almoſt invincible. on en https://archive.org/details/lccn_0884297976/ 1990 Macau Shann Davies Passport Books 0-8842-9797-6 10 Within 20 years, Macau had become an international city and one of the richest places on earth, thanks to investment in the cargoes shipped through the port. Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Aomen (especially in the Chinese media) Derived terms en Macanese Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China Translations a city just west of Hong Kong American Sign Language: ase 5@Chin-FingerAcross Twist Arabic: ar مَاكَاوْ m, ar أَوْمِين m Armenian: hy Մակաո, hy Աոմին Assamese: as মাকাও Asturian: ast Macáu Azerbaijani: az Makao Belarusian: be Аамы́нь m, be Мака́о m Bengali: bn মাকাও Bulgarian: bg Макао n, bg А́омън m, bg А́омен m Burmese: my မကာအို Catalan: ca Macau Chinese: Cantonese: yue 澳門 ou3 mun4, ou3 mun4-2, yue 馬交 maa5 gaau1 rare, colloquial Eastern Min: cdo 澳門 Ó̤-muòng Hakka: hak 澳門 O-mùn, Àu-mûn Hokkien: nan-hbl 澳門 Ò-mn̂g, Ò-mûi, Ò-bûn Mandarin: cmn 澳門 Àomén Wu: wuu 澳門 Chinese Sign Language: csl 5@Chin-FingerAcross Twist Czech: cs Macao Danish: da Macao Dhivehi: dv މަކާއޫ Esperanto: eo Makao, eo Aomeno Estonian: et Macau, et Aomen seldom Finnish: fi Macao French: fr Macao m Georgian: ka მაკაო German: de Macao Greek: el Μακάου Hebrew: he מקאו makao Hindi: hi मकाउ f Hong Kong Sign Language: hks 5@Chin-FingerAcross Twist Hungarian: hu Makaó Icelandic: is Makaó n Indonesian: id Makau Italian: it Macao Japanese: ja 澳門 マカオ, Makao, ja マカオ Makao, ja アオメン Aomen Kannada: kn ಮಕಾವು Kazakh: kk Аумын, kk Макао Khmer: km ម៉ាកាវ Korean: ko ^마카오, ko ^오문(澳門), ko ^아오먼 Kyrgyz: ky Макао Lao: lo ມາເກົາ Latvian: lv Makao, lv Aomiņa Lithuanian: lt Makao, lt Aomenas m Macanese: mzs Macau Macedonian: mk Мака́о n Malay: ms Makau Malayalam: ml മകൗ Manchu: mnc ᠣᠣ ᠮᡝᠨ, mnc ᠮᠠᡴᠠᠣ Māori: mi Makau Marathi: mr मकाउ Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Аомэн, mn Макао Mongolian script: mn ᠣᠣᠮᠧᠨ, mn ᠮ‍ᠠ‍ᠺ‍ᠠ‍ᠣ Norman: nrf Macao m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Macao Ossetian: os Макао Persian: fa ماکائو mâkâ'o Polish: pl Macao n, pl Makau n Portuguese: pt Macau Romanian: ro Macao Russian: ru Мака́о m, ru Аомы́нь m (older transliteration but common), ru Аомэ́нь m (rare spelling, new transliteration) Scottish Gaelic: gd Macau, gd Macao, gd Macàthu Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Макао m, sh Макау m Latin: sh Makao m, sh Makau m Sinhalese: si මකාවෝ Spanish: es Macau makáu, es Macao Tagalog: tl Makaw Tajik: tg Аомин, tg Аомэн, tg Макао Tamil: ta மக்காவு Telugu: te మకావు Thai: th มาเก๊า, th อ้าวเหมิน Turkmen: tk Makao Ukrainian: uk Аоми́нь m, uk Мака́о m Urdu: ur مکاؤ makā'o Uzbek: uz Makao Vietnamese: vi Ma Cao, vi Áo Môn Zhuang: za Aumwnz See also References Further reading Anagrams en aacmu Cà Mau cauma Catalan ca: Pronunciation Proper noun m ca Macau Q14773 Derived terms ca macauenc Macanese Etymology mzs :der pt:Macau + 1 Proper noun mzs proper noun mzs Macau Q14773 Derived terms mzs Macau-filo mzs Macau-paio Portuguese Pronunciation pt LL-Q5146 (por)-NMaia-Macau.wav Brazil pt aw 2 pt macau pt Ma cau Etymology 1 pt: thumb|A-má Temple World Heritage Marker thumb|A-má Temple Historical Main Entrance pt :bor nan-hbl:媽閣<unc><tr:Má Koh> nan-hbl:媽港<unc><tr:Má Káng> place in China From pt nan-hbl -, possibly either: nan-hbl 媽閣 Má Koh,zh 吳福文 客家與澳門 开放与传播 http://www.66163.com/Fujian_w/news/kfcb/kfcb9904/kfa-6b.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080113000149/http://www.66163.com/Fujian_w/news/kfcb/kfcb9904/kfa-6b.html 4 1999 January 13, 2008 福建之富网络信息有限公司 Fujian Window Internet Information Co., Ltd. Short for nan-hbl 阿媽閣 A-má Koh, from nan-hbl 阿媽 a-má grandma Mazu, patron goddess of sailors 閣 koh ornamental platform 1, as in nan-hbl 公神閣 kong-sîn-koh a building in which pictures and statues of meritorious officials are displayed. nan-hbl 媽港 Má Káng, short for nan-hbl 阿媽港 A-má Káng,en Wu Zhiliang Jin Guoping The evolution of spellings of ‘Macau’: An examination of early Portuguese and Western archival materials Katrine K. Wong; C. X. George Wei Macao – Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=PSpmAQAAQBAJ&pg=PR27&dq=%22An+examination+of+early+Portuguese+and+Western+archival+materials%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJ0urexayHAxXVslYBHdzVBSQQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=%22An%20examination%20of%20early%20Portuguese%20and%20Western%20archival%20materials%22&f=false 2014 Routledge New York 978-0-415-62586-9 3-11 from nan-hbl 阿媽 a-má grandma Mazu, patron goddess of sailors 港 káng port 1. Both referring to the A-Ma Temple (zh 媽閣廟) or Templo de A-Má in Portuguese, built around 1488 before the city of Macau came into being. The temple was founded by nan-hbl 嚴啟盛 Giâm Khé-sēng, a pirate smuggler from Zhangzhou, Fujian who was initially sentenced to death and imprisoned in Zhangzhou Prefecture before later escaping and gathering followers to go out to sea as pirates who later went to Guangdong to recruit more followers where they later first landed in the area of present-day Macau where they built a smuggling base around 1452 or so then later built the A-Ma Temple (zh 媽閣廟) to worship the Fujianese sea goddess, Mazu, known in nan-hbl 阿媽 A-má grandmother as an epithet.zh 徐曉望 嚴啟盛與澳門史事考 — 兼論澳門媽閣廟的創建 《文化雜誌》 https://hkmastudies.jnu.edu.cn/frontend/web/upload/file/20170913/20170913131355_47207.pdf 58 2006 195-200 https://web.archive.org/web/20191031182423/https://hkmastudies.jnu.edu.cn/frontend/web/upload/file/20170913/20170913131355_47207.pdf 2019-10-31zh 石奕龍 關於澳門媽祖信仰形成問題的辨識 《文化雜誌》 https://hkmastudies.jnu.edu.cn/frontend/web/upload/file/20170813/20170813144739_19328.pdf 49 2003 179-182 https://web.archive.org/web/20191031182424/https://hkmastudies.jnu.edu.cn/frontend/web/upload/file/20170813/20170813144739_19328.pdf 2019-10-31 The initial A was later likely elided due to misconstruing with pt a towards; to; at; in. Compare es Macán, ja - 媽港 マカオ, la Machao. Alternative forms pt Macao pre-1911 pt Macão Maquão Maçhoam Machoam pt a-elided obsolete pt Ama Cuão amaquan Amacao Amacão Amacuão Amaquão Amangão Amagão Amaquam obsolete Proper noun m macaense pt Macau Q14773 Descendants en Macau 1 es Macao 1 1 Etymology 2 pt:+ (Rio Grande do Norte) pt Macau<id:place in China><unc> macau<unc> place in Brazil thumb|The flag of Brazilian Macau, with a corruption of the supposedly original Chinese toponym. pt. Câmara Cascudo claimed it was named after the Chinese city, while more recent researchers link the toponym to pt macau macaw or the Macau, Gironde French commune. The first theory is the one supported and promoted by most of its inhabitants.pt Ir ao Brasil para descobrir a origem de Macau<t:Going to Brazil to discover the origin of Macau> Sociedade João Paulo Meneses Macau 2017-04 55 Macau 26–33 https://web.archive.org/web/20240518034511/https://www.revistamacau.com.mo/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/RM_issue_55_compressed.pdf 0871-004X Proper noun f macauense pt municipality s/Rio Grande do Norte c/Brazil Usage notes References Scottish Gaelic gd: Proper noun m Mhacau gd Macau Q14773 Mutation M acau Spanish Pronunciation macáu Proper noun ? es Macao: es Macau Q14773 Further reading Macao Tagalog Pronunciation Macáu Proper noun Macáu makaw tl Makaw: tl Macau Q14773