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Vietnamese
Etymology
Unclear. The word is not Sino-Vietnamese and ⟨g/gh⟩ is also not a possible initial in Sino-Vietnamese proper, therefore the word might be either native, a vernacular Sinitic loan (either from a regional Sinitic language or is an early, pre-Middle Chinese loan), or a loan from another neighboring language. The Nôm character 棍, as with many other cases, is merely a character formed by phono-semantic matching.
The word might (but unlikely) be the second element in the placename Sài Gòn.
Pronunciation
Noun
(classifier cây, bông) gòn • (棍)
- ceiba
- Synonym: bông gòn
- (by extension) cotton pad