cạy

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Tày

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier mạy) cạy

  1. Alocasia macrorrhizos

References

  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Verb

cạy (𢬹, 𢭮, 𫔷)

  1. to pry, to prize, to prise

Etymology 2

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Particularly: “This word seems to be originated from South Central or Southern Vietnam, probably of Chamic origin?”

Attested in the hydronyms Cái Cạy and Ngả Cạy.[1]

Verb

cạy

  1. (nautical) to steer a boat leftward
    Antonym: bát
    Cạy thuyền nhanh kẻo húc vào mỏm đá!
    Hurry and steer the boat leftward to avoid the rock!

References

  1. ^ Lê Trung Hoa (2015) “Từ cổ, Từ lịch sử, Từ địa phương trong địa danh Nam Bộ”, in Tạp chí Khoa học xã hội (in Vietnamese), volumes 9-10, numbers 205-206, pages 166-176