ngủ ngày

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From ngủ (to sleep, to be asleep) +‎ ngày (day, daytime).

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ngủ ngày

  1. to sleep during the day, to be asleep at daytime
    Thiếu nữ ngủ ngàyThe Day-Sleeping Girl (a poem by Hồ Xuân Hương)
    • 475 BCE - 220 CE, “V.9”, in Nguyễn Hiến Lê, transl., Analects:
      Tể Dư ngủ ngày, Khổng tử bảo: “Gỗ mục không thể chạm khắc được, vách bằng đất dơ không thể trát được? Đối với trò Dư, còn trách làm gì?”
      Zai Yu was asleep at daytime, Confucius said: “Rotten woods cannot be carved; walls made of dirty soils cannot be troweled. As for Pupil Yu, why bother to chide him?”

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