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Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 空路 (“Path to Heaven”, SV: Không Lộ), the stone pillar that was supposedly left by the creator god thần trụ trời. There was also a Buddhist sage who assumed this as his ordained name, with both the Sino- and non-Sino-Vietnamese readings. The misconstruction is possibly due to khủng (“big, huge, dreadful”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
khổng lồ
- huge; gigantic; colossal; massive; enormous
- hành tinh khổng lồ ― a giant planet
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