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Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 驢 (“donkey”, SV: lư). Compare Khmer លា (liə).
Noun
(classifier con) lừa • (驢)
- a donkey
Descendants
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Etymology 2
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 濾 (“to filter, to strain out”, SV: lự).[1]
Verb
lừa • (嚧, 𡃖, 𢗼, 𢥈, 𬐸)
- to pick out
- lừa banh ~ lừa bóng ― to dribble a ball
Ngồi buồn nhớ mẹ ta xưa,
Miệng nhai cơm búng, lưỡi lừa cá xương- I sit gloomy, missing my mother of old,
Her mouth prechewing rice into boli, her tongue picking out fish bones.
- (by extension) to dupe; to trick
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