máy bay lên thẳng
Vietnamese
Etymology
máy bay (“aircraft, airplane”) + lên (“to go up, to rise”) + thẳng (“straight”). Calque of Chinese 直升機 (zhíshēngjī, “helicopter”, literally “straight-rising airplane”).
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [maj˧˦ ʔɓaj˧˧ len˧˧ tʰaŋ˧˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [maj˨˩˦ ʔɓaj˧˧ len˧˧ tʰaŋ˧˨]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ma(ː)j˦˥ ʔɓa(ː)j˧˧ ləːn˧˧ tʰaŋ˨˩˦]