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Vietnamese
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Etymology 1
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Noun
(classifier quả, trái) dưa • (荼, 畬, 𦼞, 余, 𤬀)
- melon
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Etymology 2
Cognate with Muong Bi tưa (“pickles”).
Unlikely from Eastern Han Chinese 菹 (*tsra) and thus non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 菹 (“salted and pickled vegetables”, SV: trư, thư) (as proposed by Alves, 2022).
Noun
dưa • (荼, 畬, 𦼞, 𧃋)
- salted vegetables
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