ngã
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "nga"
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ŋaː˦ˀ˥]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ŋaː˧˨]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ŋaː˨˩˦]
Audio (Saigon): (file)
Etymology 1
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Verb
- (chiefly Northern Vietnam, of a person) to fall on the ground while standing on it in a tripping, toppling or collapsing motion; compare vấp (“to trip”), rơi (“to fall from a height”, of a person or object) and sụp đổ (“to fall or collapse”, of a building or system)
Noun
ngã
- (linguistics) Short for thanh ngã.
Etymology 2
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₁ngah (“crossroads”).
Noun
ngã
- (almost always in compounds with an integer greater than 2) an intersection
- ngã ba ― a three-way intersection; a fork
- ngã tư ― a crossroads
- ngã năm/sáu/bảy
- a five/six/seven-way intersection
- ngã tư Bảy Hiền
- the Bảy Hiền crossroads
- ngã năm Chuồng Chó
- the "Dog Cage" five-way intersection
- ngã sáu Cộng Hoà
- the Cộng Hoà six-way intersection
Usage notes
- The number attached is the number of exits, not the number of streets crossed. Therefore a crossroads is called ngã tư because it has four exits.
- Only ngã tư is correct, not *ngã bốn.
- Not to be confused with ngả (“way”).
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