dừa

See also: dua, duă, dứa, dưa, du'a, du'a', and đũa

Vietnamese

Etymology

Shorto considers Vietnamese dừa to be "morphologically related to" Proto-Mon-Khmer *braaw (through immediate *bnraaw); yet Shorto expects **rừa. For a phonological parallel, see chuối (“banana”).

Compare 椰 (MC yae) (SV: da), itself only attested since the Jin dynasty.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɨə˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jɨə˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jɨə˨˩]

Noun

dừa

1. coconut

Compounds

• cây dừa
• dầu dừa
• dừa xiêm
• nước cốt dừa (coconut milk)
• nước dừa
• xôi dừa

Verb

dừa

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