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White Hmong[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Hmong *pʉŋᴬ (“to fall”), probably borrowed from Middle Chinese 崩 (MC pong, “to collapse, crumble”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
poob
- to drop, fall down, fall from a height
- Me nyuam poob ntoo. ― The kid falls (from the) tree.
- (figuratively) to fall in a moral sense
- to lose, fail
- Nws poob nyiaj rau kev twv txiaj. ― He loses money to gambling.
- Nws poob hoob. ― He fails a class.
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 234.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 180; 281.