bần

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 頻/蘋 (SV: tần), as in 頻婆/蘋婆 (tần bà).

Pronunciation

Noun

bần

  1. mangrove apple (Sonneratia spp.)
    • 2016, Trầm Hương, Trong cơn lốc xoáy, part I, NXB Phụ nữ, page 62:
      Khi ánh chiều đã tắt, màn đêm sắp buông xuống, hai anh em Vạn, Thọ dắt nhau ra bờ sông, được an ủi, đền bù khi được ngắm đến mê mải một cảnh tượng lãng mạn, hoành tráng bởi một trời đom đóm lập lòe trên những rặng bần.
      When the afternoon light was gone and the cover of night descended, the two brothers, Vạn and Thọ, went together to the riverbank to find consolation by passionately looking at the romantic and splendid sight of a sky full of fire-flies above the row of mangrove apples.

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