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Tày
Pronunciation
Noun
cốp (𫊩)
- alternative form of côp (“frog”)
References
- Hoàng, Triều Ân, editor (2003), “𫊩 CỐP”, in Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội , via Nomfoundation.org
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From French coffre (“trunk, boot”).
Noun
cốp
- trunk (of a car, motorbike, etc.); boot
- cốp xe máy ― underseat storage of a scooter
- Synonym: hòm xe
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.
Adjective
cốp • (𠺻) (diminutive reduplication côm cốp)
- (onomatopoeia) Describing a low-pitched, sharp and brief sound from two hard objects bumping into each other; with a knock
- cộc đầu đánh cốp vào tường ― to bang the head hard against the wall with a knock
Derived terms
Verb
cốp
- (colloquial, rare) synonym of cốc (“to hit with the knuckle”)
References
- “cốp”, in Soha Tra Từ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Vietnam Communications Corporation. Available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.