lửa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lua"

Middle Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *-laːs (“fire”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *slaas ~ *slaʔ (“fire, to burn”).

Noun

lửa

1. fire

Descendants

• Vietnamese: lửa

References

• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651), “lửa”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide

Vietnamese

lửa

Alternative forms

• (North Central Vietnam) lả (in dialects where *-a- is preserved)
• (North Central Vietnam) lỏ (in dialects where *-a- > /-ɔ/)

Etymology

From Middle Vietnamese lửa, from Proto-Vietic *-laːs (“fire”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *slaas ~ *slaʔ (“fire, to burn”). Cognate with Proto-Palaungic *laːs (“to burn”) (whence Riang [Lang] las² ("to scrape, strike a match")) and Proto-Katuic *las (“to trigger; fire shot”) (whence Pacoh layh). Compare also Nghệ An/Hà Tĩnh dialects lả.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 阿呂 (MC 'a ljoX) (modern SV: a lã or a lữ).

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

lửa • (焒, 呂)

1. fire (chemical reaction)

lửa (classifier ngọn, đám)

1. flame or blaze

   thổi bùng lên ngọn lửa đam mê ― to blow the passionate flame; the ignite passion

Derived terms

• bật lửa
• củi lửa
• dầu lửa
• đá lửa
• khói lửa
• kiến lửa
• lửa lòng
• lửa trại
• máu lửa
• núi lửa
• tên lửa
• tường lửa
• xe lửa