cơm
Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *kəːm (“cooked rice”); cognate with Arem [Term?] (/kʌːm/). According to Ferlus, a loan from Chinese 泔 (OC *kaːm, “water from washing rice; kitchen slops”) (SV: cam), although the vowels are difficult to match.[1]
Semantically, compare Thai ข้าว (kâao, “rice; meal”), Khmer បាយ (baay, “rice; meal”), Chinese 飯/饭 (fàn, “rice; meal”), Korean 밥 (bap, “rice; meal”), Japanese ご飯 (gohan, “rice; meal”).
Pronunciation
Noun
- cooked non-glutinous rice
- a rice meal
- ăn cơm ― to eat rice; to have a rice meal, optionally with meat, fish, soup, among other foods
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- (of fruit, especially coconuts) meat; flesh
Derived terms
Derived terms
- cơm bữa
- cơm canh
- cơm chiên (“fried rice”)
- cơm gà
- cơm gà Hải Nam
- cơm gà Hội An
- cơm hộp
- cơm niêu (“rice cooked in an earthenware pot”)
- cơm nước
- cơm tấm
- nồi cơm điện (“rice cooker”)
- trống cơm
See also
Adjective
cơm
Verb
cơm
References
- ^ Ferlus, Michel. “The Austroasiatic Vocabulary for Rice: its Origin and Expansion.” Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 3.2 (2010), 61-76.