giải

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See also: giai

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Attested as dĕải in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

The etymological spelling would be *dải, which is not used in Modern Vietnamese.

Noun

giải • (𢃄, 𦄂, 𦃿, 𧜵, 䙊, 繲)

  1. an accolade; a prize; an award
    giải nhất/nhì/ba ― first/second/third prize
  2. (by extension) an awards event
    Giải Nô-ben ― a Nobel Prize
    Giải Grammy ― a Grammy; the Grammys
    Giải Oscar ― an Oscar; the Oscars
  3. (by extension) a tournament
    giải vô địch ― a championship
    mùa giải ― a championship season
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Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 解.

Verb

giải

  1. to relieve; to alleviate; to break down; to release; to liberate; to free; to raise (a siege)
  2. (mathematics) to solve (a mathematics problem); to answer
  3. Short for đi giải (“to relieve oneself; to pass water”).
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Etymology 3

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 解 (SV: giái).

Verb

giải

  1. to deliver (a criminal); to conduct under escort; to transport under guard
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Etymology 4

Sino-Vietnamese word from 蟹 (“crab”). Compare cua đinh (“softshell turtle, 𧍏汀”, literally “crab of the river bank”). Such turtles have shells that resemble smooth crabs rather than hardshell turtles.

 Giải New Guinea on Vietnamese Wikipedia

Noun

(classifier con) giải • (螮, 𩺌, 蠏)

  1. a kind of large soft-shell turtle ("various species in the family Trionychidae")
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Etymology 5

See trải.

Verb

giải

  1. (Northern Vietnam) Alternative form of trải (“to spread out; to lay out”)
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