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Tày
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese bắp.
Pronunciation
Noun
bắp
- corn
- bưa bắp ― corn powder
- sluôn bắp ― corn garden
- bắp nua ― waxy corn
- bắp chăm ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- bắp lương ― yellow corn
- bắp đeng ― red corn
- đúc bắp ― corncob
- pjỏn bắp ― to separate the corn kernels from the cob
- kin khẩu bắp ― to live in poverty (literally, “to eat rice with corn”)
Derived terms
References
- Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
- Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient
Vietnamese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “The "banana blossom" sense is almost certainly original, with other senses derived from it.”)
Pronunciation
Noun
(classifier cây (“maize, corn”)) bắp • (𥟼)
- (of a banana plant) a blossom
- bắp chuối ― a banana blossom
- (by extension) muscle
- (by extension, Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) maize, corn
- Synonyms: ngô, bẹ
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