đọi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "doi"

Vietnamese

Etymology

Cognate with Arem /tuəjˀ/.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɔj˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɔj˨˩ʔ]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɔj˨˩˨]

Noun

(classifier cái) đọi

1. (Central Vietnam, dialectal) Synonym of bát (“small bowl for eating rice”)

   ăn không nên đọi, nói chẳng nên lời

   terribly incompetent

   (literally, “cannot adequately eat a bowl of rice or say a comprehensible sentence”)