đường phổi

Vietnamese

Etymology

đường (“sugar”) +‎ phổi (“lungs”). The descriptor "lungs" is either due to its porous texture, or due to the shape of đường phổi blocks, which might resemble the lobe of the lungs.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗɨəŋ˨˩ foj˧˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɨəŋ˦˩ foj˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗɨəŋ˨˩ foj˨˩˦]

Noun

đường phổi

  1. a kind of cane sugar, specialty of Quảng Ngãi
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