bồ hòn

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Vietnamese

cây bồ hòn ― western soapberry tree

Etymology

Originally means Chinese soapberry, native to East and Southeast Asia; then comes to also mean western soapberry from the Americas.

First element bồ is found in bồ nâu (“dioscorea cirrhosa, dyeing yam”), bồ quân (“flacourtia jangomas, Indian coffee plum”), bồ hóng (“soot”), bồ nhìn (“scarecrow”), etc. (Vũ Đức Nghiệu, 2019)
Second element hòn is possibly non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 桓 (“Chinese soapberry”, SV: hoàn).

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cây, quả, trái) bồ hòn

Chinese soapberry (Sapindus mukorossi)
Thương nhau củ ấu cũng tròn, ghét nhau thì quả bồ hòn cũng vuông.
If we care for one another, even water caltrops are round; if we hate each other, even the soapberry fruit is square.
western soapberry (Sapindus saponaria)

Verb

bồ hòn

to have no worries

Derived terms

ngậm bồ hòn làm ngọt

References

Đỗ Tất Lợi (2004) “Cây Bồ Hòn (Bòn Hòn)”, in Những cây thuốc và vị thuốc Việt Nam‎ (in Vietnamese), XII edition, pages 751-752: “Tên khoa học Sapindus mukorossi Gaertn.”
“Bồ hòn”, in Tra cứu dược liệu (in Vietnamese), 2023: “Tên khoa học: Sapindus saponaria L.”
Liu Jiming, Wang Lianchun, Sun Caowen, et al. (2021) “Global distribution of soapberries (Sapindus L.) habitats under current and future climate scenarios”, in Scientific Reports, volume 11

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