muôn vàn
Vietnamese
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˦˩]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [muəŋ˧˧ vaːŋ˨˩] ~ [muəŋ˧˧ jaːŋ˨˩]
Noun
muôn vàn
- a great many (of); an uncountable number (of); a multitude (of)