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đầu

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "dau"

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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    Sino-Vietnamese word from 頭.

    Displaced inherited Vietic word trốc in most major dialects.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    (classifier cái) đầu

    1. (anatomy) head
      Synonym: trốc
    2. (of an object) an end or extremity; compare mũi (“tip”)
      hai đầu cầu ― the two ends of the bridge
      • (Can we date this quote?), Hoàng Hiệp, “Trường Sơn Đông, Trường Sơn Tây [East Trường Sơn and West Trường Sơn]”:
        Cùng mắc võng trên rừng Trường Sơn,
        Hai đứa ở hai đầu xa thẳm.
        Đường ra trận mùa này đẹp lắm !
        Trường Sơn Đông nhớ Trường Sơn Tây.
        Hanging our hammocks in the woods of Trường Sơn
        Both of us are, at the farthest ends.
        The roads to the battlefield look so nice this season!
        Here I am in East Trường Sơn missing you in West Trường Sơn.
    3. physical media player
      đầu đĩa ― a disc player
      đầu băng ― a VHS player

    Adjective

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    đầu

    1. first
      ngày đầu ― the first day

    Usage notes

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    • Similar to con mắt mày (literally “an eye of yours”), the phrase cái đầu mày (literally “a head of yours”) is used as a mild insult to call out someone's nonsense, like bullcrap or bollocks are in English. Speakers can replace mày with a second-person pronoun or kinship term of choice if they deem it too rough.

    Derived terms

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