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Vietnamese
Etymology
Compare đằn.
Pronunciation
Verb
dằn • (撊, 𢴍, 陳)
- to press; to press under
- to repress (feeling)
- to bang down (something out of anger)
- to stress (in one's voice)
Usage notes
Dằn In the compound adjective dữ dằn "fierce, ferocious" is possibly a fossil and derives from non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 寅 (“3rd Earth Branch; tiger in Chinese zodiac”, SV: dần); if so, dữ dằn would have originally meant "fierce, ferocious as a tiger".
Derived terms