buồng
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓuəŋ˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓuəŋ˦˩]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓuəŋ˨˩]
- Homophone: buồn (Southern Vietnam)
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)
Etymology 1
[edit]Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 房 (“room”, SV: phòng). Doublet of phòng.
Noun
[edit](classifier cái, căn) buồng • (房, 逢, 𢩣)
- room; cabin
- 1984, Nguyễn Việt Long et al., transl., Mưa: Tập truyện, Ho Chi Minh City: Nhà xuất bản Tác phẩm mới; Nhà xuất bản Long An, published 1986, page 96; translation of Somerset William Maugham, Rain and Other Short Stories, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977:
- Đêm nay trời nóng thế, anh nhỉ. Theo em, anh nên ngủ trong buồng rửa mặt ấy cho mát.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Vietic *bɔːŋ, from Proto-Austroasiatic *buːŋʔ (“bunch, cluster”).
Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese buầng in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).
Noun
[edit]- (of bananas or areca nuts) bunch
Derived terms
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