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Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French mode (“fashion”).
Noun
mốt
- fashion; trend
- hợp mốt ― à la mode; fashionable
- lỗi mốt ― out-of-fashion
See also
Etymology 2
Related to một (“one”). Compare Khmu pŋmoːj ("day after tomorrow") and moːj ("one"), Sa'och mṳːj ("day after tomorrow") and mṳːˀj ("one").
Noun
mốt • (𣋻)
- (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, colloquial) day after tomorrow
- Synonyms: ngày mốt (formal or emphatic), ngày kia (Northern Vietnam)
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Variant of một.
Numeral
mốt • (沒, 没, 蔑)
- (only in compounds or fixed expressions) one; -one
Mốt hai mốt hai mốt hai mốt!- One two one two one two one!
- hai (mươi) mốt / hăm mốt ― twenty-one
- một trăm mốt ― one hundred and ten (thousand dongs)
- một triệu mốt ― one million one hundred thousand (dongs)
Usage notes
- Mốt is used to say "one" as in "twenty-one", "thirty-one", ..., "ninety-one", not in "one hundred and one" or "one thousand and one"; "eleven" is mười một, not *mười mốt.