muôn vàn

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) man vàn

Etymology

muôn (“ten thousand”) +‎ vàn, a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 萬 (“ten thousand”, SV: vạn). Compare also vô vàn.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [muən˧˧ vaːn˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [muəŋ˧˧ vaːŋ˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [muəŋ˧˧ vaːŋ˨˩] ~ [muəŋ˧˧ jaːŋ˨˩]

Noun

muôn vàn

1. (literary) a great many (of); an uncountable number (of); a multitude (of)