nả

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Muong

Pronoun

nả

  1. (Mường Bi) he; him
  2. (Mường Bi) she; her

Tày

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Particularly: “Could be loaned from Vietnamese dialectal word ná, considering these two mean the same thing and some Tày words with "hỏi" tone (I don't know what it's called in Tày) seem to correspond to Vietnamese words with "sắc" tones. Compare cúa and của.”

Noun

nả

  1. crossbow
    khang nả ― to draw a crossbow

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *ʰnaːᶜ (“face”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨶ᩶ᩣ, Lao ໜ້າ (nā), Lü ᦐᦱᧉ (ṅaa²), Tai Dam ꪘ꫁ꪱ, Shan ၼႃႈ (nāa), Tai Nüa ᥘᥣᥲ (làa) or ᥢᥣᥲ (nàa), Ahom 𑜃𑜠 (na) or 𑜃𑜡 (nā), Zhuang naj, Thai หน้า (nâa).

Noun

nả (𫖂,那)

  1. face
    dào nả ― to wash one's face
    nả đáo ― blushed face (literally, “pink face”)
    hết nả đăm nả mẩy ― to work day and night (literally, “to work with a dark and burning face”)
    [⿰月班]六[⿰女牢]𫖂萌[⿰弄下]󰝡
    Bươn xốc sao nả méng lồng đăm
    In June, all the green-faced girls plough the fields.
    朱根[⿱台死]那淰𣷷滝
    Dùa căn thai nả nặm bến sông
    All of them died together, floating to the 'surface of the river's port.
  2. side
    nả phải ― side of the mask
    nả nưa ― above (inside a stilt house, from the kitchen towards the altar)
    nả tẩư ― below (inside a stilt house, from the kitchen towards the cupboard)
  3. (by extension) front
    nả rườn ― front of the house
    念香斉𪫆𫖂
    Niệm hương tẻ mừa nả
    One must go in the front when holding the incense and reciting Buddha's words.
  4. (art, drawing, painting, design) pattern
    nả lài thổ cẩm ― brocade pattern
  5. edge
    nả đán ― edge of the cliff
  6. size
    phải nả la̱ng ― large-sized cloth
  7. round; turn
    nả nà ― ploughing round
Derived terms

References

  • Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
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