và
See also: Appendix:Variations of "va"
Italian
Verb
và
- Misspelling of va.
Namuyi
Pronunciation
Verb
và
- to lift
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vaː˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [vaː˦˩]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [vaː˨˩] ~ [jaː˨˩]
Audio (Hồ Chí Minh City): (file)
Etymology 1
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 和 (“and”, SV: hoà).
Conjunction
Usage notes
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Compare Pacoh cuva (“to scoop food into mouth”).
Verb
- To shovel food from a rice bowl into one's mouth using a pair of chopsticks.
- 1930, Hồ Biểu Chánh, Con nhà nghèo[1]:
- Thị Tố bưng chén cơm mà và, cơm còn nóng nên khói lên nghi ngút.
- Thị Tố held up the rice bowl to shovel rice into her mouth, the rice still hot and billowing with steam.
- Cháu đã biết và cơm lấy rồi.
- The grandchild already knows how to shovel rice using chopsticks all by himself.
Related terms
Etymology 3
Determiner
- some (indefinite quantity greater than one)
Synonyms
Related terms
References
- "và" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
- Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)
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