bơi

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Tày

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese bơi.

Pronunciation

Verb

bơi

  1. to row
    bơi lừato row a boat
    bơi rèngto row vigorously
    bơito row a raft

References

  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *pəːj.

Pronunciation

Verb

bơi (𬈺, 𢴾)

  1. to swim (move through water)
  2. to row a boat
    • 1957, Đoàn Giỏi, chapter 9, in Đất rừng phương Nam, Kim Đồng:
      Tôi đã chen vào giữa, quảy tòn ten một cái gùi bé mà má nuôi tôi đã bơi xuồng đi mượn của nhà đi ngoài xóm bìa rừng từ chiều hôm qua.
      I came in between, carrying a basket dangling from a shoulder pole, for which my adoptive mother rowed the boat to the hamlet at the border of the forest to borrow it yesterday afternoon.
  3. (figuratively) to struggle doing something beyond your capacity
    Nếu không nắm vững cơ bản ngay từ bây giờ thì sau này sẽ phải bơi đó.
    If you don't have firm grip on the basics from the get-go, you'll be flagging later.

Derived terms

Descendants

Tày: bơi

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