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Vietnamese
Etymology
quê (“hometown”) + Chinese 鄉／乡 (hương, “hometown”).
Pronunciation
Noun
quê hương
- (literary) hometown; birthplace
1956, Tế Hanh, “Nhớ con sông quê hương (Missing my hometown’s river)”, in Lòng miền Nam (Heart of the South):Tôi sẽ lại nơi tôi hằng mơ ước
Tôi sẽ về sông nước của quê hương
Tôi sẽ về sông nước của tình thương- I will come back to where I always dream of.
I will come back to the river of my hometown;
I will come back to the river of love.
- (literary, by extension) homeland; motherland
- 1956, "Việt Nam quê hương tôi (Vietnam, Our Homeland)", lyrics and music by Đỗ Nhuận
Bạn ơi, hãy đến quê hương chúng tôi! Ngắm mặt biển xanh xa tít chân trời; [...]- Friends, come ye to our homeland! View the blue sea far up to the horizon;
- 1986, Đỗ Trung Quân, “Bài học đầu cho con (First Lesson for You, Child)”
Quê hương mỗi người chỉ một,
Như là chỉ một mẹ thôi.- Everyone has just one homeland,
like their one and only mother.
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