nông

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [nəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [nəwŋ͡m˧˧]

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From Proto-Vietic *ɗoːŋ.

nông • (農, 濃)

1. (usually of water bodies) shallow

Sino-Vietnamese word from 農.

nông

1. farming

   nghề nông ― farming

   làm nông ― to do farming; to farm

2. clipping of nông nghiệp (“agriculture”)

   công-nông ― industrial and agricultural, worker and peasants

Unknown.

Possibly from a Wanderwort also ancestral to Khmer ទុង (tung), Thai กระทุง (grà-tung), and Lao ກະທຸງ (ka thung), all meaning "pelican".

nông • (𪆯, 𪇌)

1. (obsolete) pelican
   • Lý hạng ca dao 里巷歌謠 (Folk-ballads from the hamlets and alleys), folio 36a

     丐𪂲丐𪅥丐𪆯
     𫳵𡮠踸𪽣穭翁唉𪂲

     Cái cò cái vạc cái nông;
     Sao mày giẫm ruộng lúa ông hỡi cò?

     The stork, the heron, the pelican;
     Why troddest thou on my paddy rice, oh stork?

• bồ nông

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