dại

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dai"

Vietnamese

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Bệnh dại

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “This word is quite consistently written with characters with 曳 (MC yejH) as phonetic, even in Phật thuyết, and the Mường Bi cognate also shows palatal initial. If this is actually from Proto-Vietic *-daːlʔ, there should be a dental/alveolar stop popping up somewhere.”

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaːj˧˨ʔ]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jaːj˨˩ʔ]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [jaːj˨˩˨]

Adverb

dại

(especially of plants) wildly; naturally; in an uncontrolled way
Cây này mọc dại chứ đâu ai trồng.
This tree grows naturally, nobody planted it.

Adjective

dại • (𤵺, 曳. 𢘽, 𠻇)

(of a plant) wild
cỏ dại ― weeds
(of a person) naive and lacking in common sense
Antonym: khôn

Mày lớn/to đầu mà dại lắm con ạ!
How can you be so old yet so infantile?
(of a person) mad, crazy, insane
điên dại ― insanity
(of body parts) losing flexibility and agility
mắt dại ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
(of an animal) rabid
chó dại ― a rabid/mad dog
(of a body part) numb due to a loss of circulation
Unable to adapt to unfavorable natural conditions: inexperience, vulnerable, fragile, weak
mẹ già con dại ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Noun

dại • (曳)

(bệnh ~) rabies (a kind of infectious disease)

Derived terms