phi trường

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 飛 (“to fly”) and 場 (“field”). Compare Chinese 飛機場／飞机场 (fēijīchǎng), 機場／机场 (jīchǎng, “airport”).

Pronunciation

Noun

phi trường

  1. (obsolete outside Overseas Vietnamese communities) airport, airfield

Usage notes

A user has added this entry to requests for verification(+) with the reason: “Yeah I have heard this repeated a fair number of times, but how true is this actually? On Google Books, I found plenty of attestations of sân bay (both in isolation and as part of name like "sân bay Tân Sơn Nhất/Nhứt") in texts published in the South pre-1975, including documents published by the South Vietnam goverment. I also found phi trường in a document pubished by Workers' Party of Vietnam and in books by Trần Huy Liệu, a member of the Communist Party.”
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  • This is a South Vietnamese word that has been displaced by its northern, more "native" counterpart sân bay in Vietnam. In overseas Vietnamese communities, it is still in common use.

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