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Tày
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
bốc
- to scratch
- Synonyms: khuýa, khoán, khoát, vát
Tu slưa bốc đin.- The tiger scratches the dirt.
Etymology 2
From Proto-Tai *ɓokᴰ (“dry land”). Cognate with Lao ບົກ (bok), Thai บก (bòk).
Adjective
bốc (卜)
- (container or body of water) no longer containing any liquid; dry
Mỏ nặm phật hâng bốc lẹo.- The water in the pot became dry after boiling for a while.
- khuổi bốc ― dry creek
- bẳng bốc ― dry tube (tubes are used to conserve water)
- onland
Pây bốc rụ pây nặm?- We go on land or by water?
Derived terms
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 *poːk (“handful”). Related to vốc (“handful”).
Compare also Baha pok³¹ (“bunch, handful”).
Pronunciation
Verb
bốc • (卜, 扑)
- to pick something up with hand
- ăn bốc ― to eat with hands
- to make up (a traditional medicine prescription)
- to exhume and move (a corpse) to another place
- to steam, to vaporize
Derived terms
Noun
bốc • (卜, 扑)
- (dialectal) a handful