cách mạng
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Vietnamese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 革命, composed of 革 (“to change”) and 命 (“the Mandate of Heaven”), from Japanese 革命 (“revolution”), itself borrowed from Literary Chinese 革命 (gémìng, “to change from one dynasty to another”).
This form has the Southern reading mạng for the second character.
Pronunciation
Noun
- revolution
- 2011 [1969 July 15], “Trả lời phỏng vấn của Sáclơ Phuốcniô, phóng viên báo L'Humanité (Pháp) [Answering Interview Questions by L'Humanité Journalist Charles Fourniau (France)]”, in Hồ Chí Minh — Toàn tập, volume 15, page 585:
- Tôi không chỉ tranh luận trong chi bộ tôi, mà còn đi đến các chi bộ khác để nêu câu hỏi: ‘Nếu các đồng chí không lên án chủ nghĩa thực dân, nếu các đồng chí không đoàn kết với các dân tộc thuộc địa, thì các đồng chí làm thứ cách mạng gì?’
- I not only debated within my branch, but also went to other branches to ask this question: ‘Comrades, if you would not denounce colonialism, if you would not unite in solidarity with colonized peoples, then what kind of revolution will you make?’