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Vietnamese
Etymology
Likely related to lợp (“to roof”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lớp • (立, 笠, 泣, 垃, 𧙀)
- a layer (single thickness of some material covering a surface)
Phủ một lớp bơ lên miếng bánh mì nướng.- Spread a layer of butter on that slice of toast.
18th century, Đặng Trần Côn (鄧陳琨) (circa 1705–1745) (original Chinese), translated by Đoàn Thị Điểm (段氏點) (1705–1746/1748) (traditionally claimed), might actually be translated by Phan Huy Ích (潘輝益) (1751–1822), Chinh phụ ngâm khúc (征婦吟曲) [The Song of a Soldier's Wife], lines 143-144:𦼔𣛟𱥯笠終扃
𨄹𡑝𠬠𨀈𤾓情艮魚- Rêu xanh mấy lớp chung quanh,
Dạo sân một bước, trăm tình ngẩn ngơ. - With patches of green moss around me,
Each step I take in the courtyard, hundred thoughts swirl in my heart.
- grade; school year
Em học lớp năm.- I'm a fifth grader. / I'm a fifth-grade student. / I'm in fifth grade.
c. 1940s, Evgeny Schwartz, Первоклассница – Как Маруся первый раз пошла в школу [The First Grader – How Marusya Went to School for the First Time]; Vietnamese translation by Khánh Như (Lê Khánh Căn), transl., Ma-rút-xi-a đi học, 1959, pages 47-48:Lớp một ơi, lớp một!
Đón em vào năm trước;
Năm nay lên lớp hai,
Gửi lời chào, tiến bước!- Pervyj klass! V pervyj raz!
God nazad ty prinjal nas.
Perešli my vo vtoroj
I proščajemsja s toboj.
- First grade, o first grade!
You welcomed us last year;
This year we're going to second grade,
We bid you farewell, on our way forward!
- (education) a class (group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher)
Mấy đứa con trai lớp A quậy lắm!- The boys in class A are really mischievous!
- (taxonomy) a class
- lớp Thú / lớp Có Vú ― Mammalia
- (theater) an act
- Lớp 1, Cảnh 1 ― Act 1, Scene 1
- (literary) a generation
- lớp trẻ ― younger generations
See also