thất

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 七 (“seven”).

Numeral

thất

(only in compounds) seven

Synonyms

(native) bảy

Derived terms

Bắc Đẩu thất tinh (北斗七星, “Ursa Major”)
song thất lục bát (雙七六八, “quatrain of 7,7,6,8 syllables”)
thất bảo (七寶, “seven precious objects”)
thất điên bát đảo (七顛八倒)
thất giác (七角, “heptagon”)
thất ngôn tuyệt cú (“a poem of seven syllables per line”)
thất ngôn tứ tuyệt (“a poem of seven syllables per line”)
thất ngôn (七言)
Thất Tịch (七夕, “Double Seventh Festival”)
thất tình (七情, “seven emotional states”)
thất xuất (“seven grounds for divorce”)

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 失.

Verb

thất

(only in compounds) to lose

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 室.

Noun

thất

(medicine) ventricle (of the heart, brain)

Etymology 4

Sino-Vietnamese word from 室.

Noun

thất

house; wife

Derived terms

chính thất (正室, “legal wife (not concubine)”)
thất nữ (室女, “unmarried female virgin”)
Thất Nữ (室女, “Virgo”)

References

^ Dinh-hoa Nguyen (1995) “thất”, in NTC's Vietnamese–English Dictionary, →ISBN, page 565

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