mươi
Nung
Noun
mươi
References
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
A variant of mười (“ten”), perhaps from an originally prefixed form.
Numeral
- (cardinal number, only in compounds with hai (“two”) to chín (“nine”)) -ty
- Synonym: chục
- tám mươi ― eighty
- (colloquial) some ten; about ten
Numeral
- about ten
- mươi ngày ― about ten days
- mươi đồng ― about ten dong
Etymology 2
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Noun
mươi
Synonyms
- (frost): sương giá
References
- "mươi" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)