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Vietnamese
Etymology
Cognate with Arem dæːmˀ.
Pronunciation
Noun
đám • (坫, 盎)
- cluster, heap
18th–19th century, Hồ Xuân Hương (胡春香), “Vịnh ốc nhồi (詠屋𧋆) [River Snail]”, in John Balaban, transl., Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hồ Xuân Hương, Copper Canyon Press (book), also hosted by Nôm Foundation (online), published 2000:博媄生𫥨分屋𧋆
𣎀𣈜粦𨀎盎𦹵灰- Bác mẹ sinh ra phận ốc nhồi,
Đêm ngày lăn lóc đám cỏ hôi - Fate and my parents shaped me like a snail,
day and night wandering marsh weeds that smell foul.
- crowd, throng, gathering
Derived terms
Classifier
đám • (坫, 盎)
- Indicates things with the form of a cluster
Graphical notes
- The Nôm character 盎 was originally used as a phonogram meant to be read as áng. Because áng and đám are/were semantically similar (both are still the modern classifiers for mây (“cloud”)), 盎 became a semantogram used to write đám. For example, the place name "Xuân Đám" in Bắc Giang was spelled as 春盎 on 春盎社亭碑 (Xuân Đám xã đình bi, 1720).[1]
References
- ^ Nguyễn Văn Phong (2016). "Nghiên cứu văn bia tỉnh Bắc Giang". Ph.D. thesis. Học viện Khoa học Xã hội (Graduate Academy of Social Sciences), Viện Hàn lâm Khoa học xã hội Việt Nam (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences), Hà Nội.