bơi

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *pǝːj.

Pronunciation

Verb

bơi (𬈺)

  1. to swim (move through water)
  2. to row a boat
    • 1957, Đoàn Giỏi, Đất rừng phương Nam, Kim Đồng publishing house, chapter 9
      Tôi đã chen vào giữa, quảy tòn ten một cái gùi bé mà má nuôi tôi đã bơi xuồng đi mượn của nhà đi ngoài xóm bìa rừng từ chiều hôm qua.
      I came in between, carrying a basket dangling from a shoulder pole, for which my adoptive mother rowed the boat to the hamlet at the border of the forest to borrow it yesterday afternoon.

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