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Vietnamese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Sino-Vietnamese word from 蝶 (“butterfly”).
The sense of "scallop" is due to the visual similarity between scallop's valves and butterfly's wings when spread.
Noun[edit]
(classifier con) điệp
- (archaic, literary) butterfly
- Synonym: hồ điệp
- scallop (bivalve mollusc)
- scallop powder (used in papermaking)
Noun[edit]
(classifier cây) điệp
- (Southern Vietnam) Caesalpinia pulcherrima
- Synonyms: điệp đỏ, điệp cúng, kim phượng
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Etymology 2[edit]
Sino-Vietnamese word from 疊.
Verb[edit]
điệp
- to repeat; to reduplicate
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Etymology 3[edit]
Romanization[edit]
điệp
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 諜
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Etymology 4[edit]
Sino-Vietnamese word from 牒.
Noun[edit]
điệp
- (archaic, historical) official message; official letter
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Categories:
- Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Sino-Vietnamese words
- Vietnamese nouns classified by con
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese nouns
- Vietnamese terms with archaic senses
- Vietnamese literary terms
- Vietnamese nouns classified by cây
- Southern Vietnamese
- Vietnamese verbs
- Vietnamese non-lemma forms
- Vietnamese romanizations
- Sino-Vietnamese readings
- Vietnamese terms with historical senses
- vi:Bivalves