vũng

See also: vung, vùng, and vụng

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *(d)baŋ() ~ *(d)buuŋh (“pool, marsh”); cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] /puŋ⁶/, Khmer ត្រពាំង (trɑpĕəng, “pool, marsh”), Khasi pung (“pool”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vʊwŋ͡m˦ˀ˥]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vʊwŋ͡m˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [vʊwŋ͡m˨˩˦] ~ [jʊwŋ͡m˨˩˦]

Noun

vũng • (漨, 淎)

1. puddle (a small pool of water)

   vũng nước trên mặt đường

   a puddle in the road

2. cove, embayment

Derived terms

• vũng lầy
• Vũng Tàu

Related terms

• (cove): vịnh

References

• "vũng" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)