buồng

See also: buông, bương, bướng, and bưởng

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓuəŋ˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓuəŋ˦˩]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓuəŋ˨˩]
  • Homophone: buồn (Southern Vietnam)
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Etymology 1

    Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 房 (“room”, SV: phòng). Doublet of phòng.

    Noun

    (classifier cái, căn) buồng • (房, 逢, 𢩣)

    1. room; cabin
      • 1984, Nguyễn Việt Long et al., transl., Mưa: Tập truyện, Ho Chi Minh City: Nhà xuất bản Tác phẩm mới; Nhà xuất bản Long An, published 1986, page 96; translation of Somerset William Maugham, Rain and Other Short Stories, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977:
        Đêm nay trời nóng thế, anh nhỉ. Theo em, anh nên ngủ trong buồng rửa mặt ấy cho mát.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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    Etymology 2

    From Proto-Vietic *bɔːŋ, from Proto-Austroasiatic *buːŋʔ (“bunch, cluster”).

    Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese buầng in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

    Noun

    buồng • (蓬, 逢)

    1. (of bananas or areca nuts) bunch
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    See also

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