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Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 賊 (SV: tặc). Cognate with Chut kəcʌ́ːk.
Attested as giạc in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).
The figurative sense was coined by Hồ Chí Minh:
1948 June 24 , Hồ Chí Minh, “Lời kêu gọi thi đua ái quốc ”, in Báo Cứu quốc , volume 968:Mục đích Thi đua ái quốc là: Diệt giặc đói, Diệt giặc dốt, Diệt giặc ngoại xâm.- The objectives of patriotic Emulation are: Destroying the enemy that is hunger, Destroying the enemy that is ignorance, Destroying invading foreign enemies.
Pronunciation
Noun
giặc • (弋, 賊)
- (collective) enemy, invader, aggressor
- giặc ngoại xâm ― foreign invaders
giặc đến nhà, đàn bà cũng đánh- when invaders come, even women fight
- (figurative) widespread issue that ravages the country
- giặc dốt ― illiteracy
- giặc đói ― famine
- giặc dịch ― pandemic
2017, “Học Bác diệt "giặc đói"”, in Tuổi trẻ Phú Yên:Dẫu rằng "giặc đói" không còn, nhưng "giặc nghèo" vẫn đang hiện hữu.- Although hunger is a thing of the past, poverty is still an issue.
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