bắt

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Tày

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

bắt

  1. to suffocate
    bắt châư ― to suffocate
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Etymology 2

Adjective

bắt

  1. expensive
    khai bắt ― to sell (something) expensively
  2. precious
    cúa bắt cúa pèng ― rare and precious valuables
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Etymology 3

Verb

bắt

  1. to distill
    bắt mỏ lẩu ― to distill wine in a cooking pot

Etymology 4

Noun

bắt (弼)

  1. dou

Etymology 5

Verb

bắt

  1. to stop talking and crying
    Synonyms: mép, đắp
    Bắt pây mí hảy.
    Shut up, stop crying.

References

  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *pəc (“to pick”). Related to bứt, phứt, phắt.

Pronunciation

Verb

bắt • (扒, 北, 八, 抔, 撥, 𫐴, 𫐾)

  1. to seize; to catch
  2. to arrest
  3. to receive; to pick up
    bắt sóng ― to pick up the (phone) signal
  4. to get
  5. to force; to compel
    Synonyms: ép, buộc
    • 14th century, Mạc Đĩnh Chi, Giáo tử phú 敎子賦:
      渃銅扒㕵
      没𣈗𤾓番
      𤈜湼散情
      𢚸傷逼息
      Nước đồng bắt uống,
      Một ngày trăm phen,
      Cháy nát tan tành,
      Lòng thương bức tức.
      Forced to drink molten copper
      One hundred times a day,
      Their innards burned to ashes;
      My heart aches with fury .
  6. to fit; to install

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