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Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French garde.
Some early attestations are in Le Livre du soldat annamite (The Book of the Annamite Soldier, 1914), where it is seen in lính gác and đứng gác. Latter appeared as an entry in Việt-Nam tự-điển (1931) with the elaboration "bởi chữ Pháp ⟪garde⟫" (“from the French word 'garde'”).
Verb
gác
- to guard; to watch
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Possibly related to ghếch (cf. rác and rếch, bạc and bệch).
Verb
gác • (擱挌, , 各, 閣, 搁)
- to put something on something; to hang something on something
- gác chân lên bàn ― to put/rest one's legs on a table
- to put on hold
Giờ ta tạm gác lại chuyện đó.- Let's put that on hold for the time being.
Etymology 3
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 閣 (“pavillion”, SV: các).
Noun
gác • (閣)
- (architecture) a loft
- Synonym: gác lửng
Usage notes
- If it's a tầng or lầu (“floor; story”), you get there by climbing a flight of stairs. If it's a gác (“loft”), you get there by climbing a ladder.
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