bông

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bong"

Tày

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Vietnamese bông.

Noun

(classifier coóc) bông (𱣩)

  1. cotton
    Synonym: mèn
    Phên phà bông hún ún.
    The cotton blanket is warm.

Etymology 2

Adjective

bông

  1. unkempt; uncombed
    hua bông, chảu nhoa̱i ― messy head and unkempt hair
  2. (of food or dirt) friable
    Thúa kheo khủa bông.
    Green beans are boiled then roasted to the point of being friable.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Possibly related to poòng, pổng.

Verb

bông

  1. to swell; to expand
    Cáy khôn bông.
    The chicken's feathers swelled.
    Khẩu sluy bông.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *poːŋ (“flower”). Cognate with Muong pông and Thavung โปง.

This word had been tentatively proposed as being connected etymologically with Hmong-Mien (Proto-Hmong-Mien *bi̯aŋ, whence Iu Mien biangh, White Hmong paj) or Austronesian (Proto-Austronesian *buŋa, whence Malay bunga etc.) (for examples, Hsiu, 2017; H. Hayes, 1999, Hoàng Thị Châu, 2009). Ratliff (2017) connected the Hmong-Mien and Austronesian terms, but did not mention any Austroasiatic comparanda. In any case, the connection is not certain and might just be look-alikes.

Noun

bông • (芃, 葻, 𥟌, 𣒾, 𣜳)

  1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) bloom; flower
    Synonym: hoa
  2. cotton
    gấu bông ― a cotton-stuffed bear

Classifier

bông • (芃, 葻)

  1. Indicates flowers.
    Synonym: đoá

Usage notes

  • Although bông in the sense of "flower" has mostly been displaced by hoa in the Northern dialects, lúa (“rice plant”) is an exception in that it is most often only accompanied by bông (i.e. bông lúa, lúa trổ bông, etc.) and not hoa, regardless of the dialect.

See also

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bon.

Noun

bông

  1. (dated) coupon; voucher; bond; proof
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