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Vietnamese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
sãi • (𪧸)
- Buddhist monk
- 16th century, Nguyễn Thế Nghi's (attributed) Tân biên Truyền kỳ mạn lục tăng bổ giải âm tập chú (新編傳奇漫錄增補解音集註), giải âm/translation of “The Tale of the Abandoned Pagoda in Đông Triều” in Truyền kỳ mạn lục ("Casual Record of Transmitted Strange-Tales") by Nguyễn Dữ.
仕娓𨪷𩯀共民平㐌姅- Sãi vãi gọt tóc cùng dân bình đã nửa.
- Those who cut their hair and became Buddhist monks and nuns constituted half of the common populace.
- Buddhist temple's warden
Lắm / Nhiều sãi không ai đóng cửa chùa.- Everybody's business is nobody's business (literally, “ many wardens none closes the temple's door”).
Con vua thì lại làm vua;
Con sãi ở chùa lại quét lá đa.- A monarch's son shall become a monarch;
A son of a warden in a Buddhist temple shall sweep banyan leaves.
See also
References
sãi in Hồ Ngọc Đức's The Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project