bông
Tày
Pronunciation
- (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [ɓəwŋ͡m˧˥]
- (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [ɓəwŋ͡m˦]
Etymology 1
From Vietnamese bông.
Noun
(classifier coóc) bông (𱣩)
Etymology 2
Adjective
bông
- unkempt; uncombed
- hua bông, chảu nhoa̱i ― messy head and unkempt hair
- (of food or dirt) friable
- Thúa kheo khủa bông.
- Green beans are boiled then roasted to the point of being friable.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Possibly related to poòng, pổng.
Verb
bông
- to swell; to expand
- Cáy khôn bông.
- The chicken's feathers swelled.
- Khẩu sluy bông.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
References
- Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary][1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
- Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày][3] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
- Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary][4] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓəwŋ͡m˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓəwŋ͡m˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓəwŋ͡m˧˧]
Audio (Hà Nội): (file) Audio (Saigon): (file)
Etymology 1
From Proto-Vietic *poːŋ (“flower”). Cognate with Muong pông and Thavung โปง.
This word had been tentatively proposed as being connected etymologically with Hmong-Mien (Proto-Hmong-Mien *bi̯aŋ, whence Iu Mien biangh, White Hmong paj) or Austronesian (Proto-Austronesian *buŋa, whence Malay bunga etc.) (for examples, Hsiu, 2017; H. Hayes, 1999, Hoàng Thị Châu, 2009). Ratliff (2017) connected the Hmong-Mien and Austronesian terms, but did not mention any Austroasiatic comparanda. In any case, the connection is not certain and might just be look-alikes.
Noun
- (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) bloom; flower
- Synonym: hoa
- cotton
- gấu bông ― a cotton-stuffed bear
Classifier
- Indicates flowers.
- Synonym: đoá
Usage notes
- Although bông in the sense of "flower" has mostly been displaced by hoa in the Northern dialects, lúa (“rice plant”) is an exception in that it is most often only accompanied by bông (i.e. bông lúa, lúa trổ bông, etc.) and not hoa, regardless of the dialect.
See also
Etymology 2
Noun
bông
- Tày terms with IPA pronunciation
- Tày terms borrowed from Vietnamese
- Tày terms derived from Vietnamese
- Tày nouns classified by coóc
- Tày lemmas
- Tày nouns
- Tày terms with usage examples
- Tày adjectives
- Tày verbs
- Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Vietnamese terms with audio pronunciation
- Vietnamese terms inherited from Proto-Vietic
- Vietnamese terms derived from Proto-Vietic
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese nouns
- Central Vietnamese
- Southern Vietnamese
- Vietnamese terms with usage examples
- Vietnamese classifiers
- Vietnamese terms borrowed from French
- Vietnamese terms derived from French
- Vietnamese dated terms
- vi:Fibers
- vi:Flowers
- vi:Plants
- vi:Textiles