bốc
Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *poːk (“handful”). Related to vốc.
Pronunciation
Verb
- to pick something up with hand
- ăn bốc ― to eat with hands
- to make up (a traditional medicine prescription)
- to exhume and move (a corpse) to another place
- to steam, to vaporize
Derived terms
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