bản

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ban"

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 版 (“edition”).

Noun

bản

  1. (printing, publishing) a version or copy
    bản sao ― a copy
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bản

  1. (derogatory) Indicates certain body parts
    bản mặt ― face (derogatory)
    Nói muốn rát bản họng luôn mà tụi nó có nghe đâu.
    There goes all my effort convincing them now that my damn throat is sored and they still don't give a shit.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tai, compare Thai บ้าน (bâan), Lao ບ້ານ (bān).

Noun

bản

  1. small village in the highlands of Vietnam
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Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 本; this is the Northern form. Doublet of bổn, earlier the common form and later the Southern form.

This form is probably a rather late innovation in the Northern region, displaced bổn in the Northern dialects:

  • bản as the Sino-Vietnamese reading of 本 (MC pwonX) is attested once (as bản đạo) in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, a dictionary chiefly based on the Northern dialects, while bổn is attested thrice (in bổn đạo (“of the same religion”), bổn cục (“a circle of craftsmen”), nhịt bổn (“Japan”)).
  • The expected Sino-Vietnamese reflex for this rime is /on/, cf. bôn < 奔 (MC pwon), bồn < 盆 (MC bwon), bộn < 坌 (MC bwonH).
  • In early Nôm texts (which are all of clear Northern origin), 本 (MC pwonX) was used as a phonogram or as the phonetic in phono-semantograms to write the native Vietnamese word bốn (“four”), whose vocalism value is stable throughout its development from Proto-Vietic to Modern Vietnamese.

Noun

bản

  1. (only in compounds) source; origin; root
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