xé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "xe"

Dakota

Noun

xé

1. mountain

Venetan

Verb

xé

1. third-person singular present indicative of èser
2. third-person plural present indicative of èser

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 扯 (“to tear”, SV: xả).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sɛ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [sɛ˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [sɛ˦˥]

Verb

xé • (𫽎, 𢹊, 𠠚, 熾, 扯)

1. (transitive) to tear

   xé tờ giấy ― to tear up a sheet of paper

   xé vải ― to tear cloth

Derived terms

• bé xé ra to
• cắn xé
• cấu xé
• giằng xé
• vò xé
• voi giày ngựa xé
• xâu xé
• xé lẻ
• xé phay
• xé rào
• xé xác

References

• Hồ Ngọc Đức, editor (2003), “xé”, in Việt–Việt‎^[1] (DICT), Leipzig: Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details), archived from the original on 12 November 2024