lõ
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Noun
lõ
- alternative spelling of l'õ'
Vietnamese
Etymology
mũi lõ
Attested as blỏ in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651). Possibly related to lò (adjective) and ló.
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Of nose or physique: prominent
- mũi lõ ― long and narrow nose; prominent nose
- gầy lõ xương ― bony; very skinny
Usage notes
- Lõ is almost exclusively used to describe someone's nose, and is usually associated with Westerners or Caucasians.
- Consequently, the word could still be understood as describing some person's nose in situations where it is used to modify a noun or pronoun representing the said person, i.e. "Tây lõ" to mean "big-nosed Westerner".
Derived terms
References
- ^ Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “blỏ”, in Dictionarium Annnamiticum Lusitanum, et Latinum (in Latin and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide