đọi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "doi"

Vietnamese

Etymology

Cognate with Arem tuəjˀ.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗɔj˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɔj˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗɔj˨˩˨]

Noun

(classifier cái) đọi • (𡑖, 𥖐)

  1. (North Central Vietnam) bowl (from which rice is typically eaten)
    ăn không nên đọi, nói chẳng nên lời
    terribly incompetent
    (literally, “cannot adequately eat a bowl of rice or say a comprehensible sentence”)
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