cải

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "cai"

Tày

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese cái.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cải (𱘽)

  1. big; large; wide; main
    cần cải ― adult (literally, “large person”)
    hết cải ― to have high positions (literally, “to do big”)
    dú cải ― self-confident (literally, “to be at the big”)
    tàng cải ― main road
    nà cải ― wide paddy fields
    Mạy chắn cải.
    The tree is clearly large.
    Âu ăn cải, tả ăn ỉ.
    Take the big one and discard the small one.

Derived terms

References

  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt‎ (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 (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 芥 (“mustard”, SV: giới).

From Proto-Vietic *kaːs, borrowed from a post-Old Chinese form. Cognate with Muong cái and Thavung kajh¹.

Noun

(classifier củ) cải

  1. cruciferous vegetables (Brassica): coles, mustards, cabbages, radishes, etc.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 改.

Verb

cải

  1. to change, to alter
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