cáng

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "cang"

Lashi

Pronunciation

Verb

cáng

  1. (transitive) to lay (e.g. bricks)

References

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Mandarin

Alternative forms

Romanization

cáng (cang2, Zhuyin ㄘㄤˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 藏
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匚
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臣
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蔮 / 𬜿
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鑶

Tày

Etymology

Compare kính.

Pronunciation

Noun

cáng (𣚦, 梗)

  1. branch
    cáng mạy ― tree branch
  2. division based on the first generation born from the same ancestor
    Chang họ, te le cáng nưa. ― Within our family, they're part of the upper branch.

Derived terms

References

  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Etymology

It originally meant "hammock on a carrying pole".[1][2][3]

According to Vương Trung Hiếu (2021), it also had an extended, now obsolete, meaning "hammock-porter";[3] earlier, J. F. M. Génibrel attests to the compound chơn cáng ("porteurs en filet ").[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

cáng • (綱)

  1. (obsolete) hammock-porter

(classifier cái) cáng • (綱, 杭, 𫆥)

  1. (possibly obsolete) hammock on a carrying pole
  2. (by extension) palanquin
  3. (by extension) stretcher

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Rev. An-tôn Trần Gia Kiệm (2004) Giúp đọc Nôm và Hán-Việt‎, page 290
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.F.M. Génibrel (1898) “Cáng”, in Dictionnaire Annamite-Français, page 64
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Vương Trung Hiếu (2021) “Lắt léo chữ nghĩa: ‘Đểu cáng’ và ‘cửu vạn’ [Conundrum about Words and Meanings: ‘Đểu cáng’ and ‘cửu vạn’]”, in Thanh Niên [Young People]‎ (in Vietnamese)
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