bắp

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Tày

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Vietnamese bắp.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bắp

  1. corn
    bưa bắpcorn powder
    sluôn bắpcorn garden
    bắp nuawaxy corn
    bắp chăm(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    bắp lươngyellow corn
    bắp đengred corn
    đúc bắpcorncob
    pjỏn bắpto separate the corn kernels from the cob
    kin khẩu bắpto live in poverty (literally, “to eat rice with corn”)

Derived terms

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References

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  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français[3] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “The "banana blossom" sense is almost certainly original, with other senses derived from it.”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(classifier cây (“maize, corn”)) bắp (𥟼)

  1. (of a banana plant) a blossom
    bắp chuốia banana blossom
  2. (by extension) muscle
  3. (by extension, Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) maize, corn
    Synonyms: ngô, bẹ

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Derived terms