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Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Tai; compare Thai ไร่ (râi).
Noun
rẫy • (𡓾, 𡋀)
- mountain field (obtained by deforestation, tree burning and replanting)
Etymology 2
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 離 (SV: li), from the transitive departing-tone derivation *raj-s "to reject" of Old Chinese *raj "to depart".
Verb
rẫy
- to abandon; to repudiate; to renounce (one's wife)
Etymology 3
Verb
rẫy
- (colloquial) Synonym of giãy