đồng

đồng (plural đồng or đồngs)

1. Uncommon spelling of dong (“Vietnamese currency”).

• dong (nonstandard, though common)

From Vietnamese đồng.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoŋɡ]
• Rhymes: -oŋɡ
• Homophone: dong

đồng (plural đồngok)^[1]

1. dong (the currency of Vietnam; usually used by thousands or higher denominations)

   1000 vietnámi đồng körülbelül 15 forintot ér. ― 1,000 Vietnamese dongs are worth approximately 15 Hungarian forints.

• dong (“to buzz, drone”)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˨˩]

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Borrowed from Tai; compare Tày tô̱ng, Thai ทุ่ง (tûng). Probably related to Central and Southern Vietnamese đùng.

(classifier cánh) đồng • (垌)

1. field (clearly delimited land area free of woodland, cities, and towns)

   Meronym: ruộng (“field used to grow crops”)

   đồng lúa ― a rice paddy

   đồng cỏ ― a meadow

Norman & Mei (1976: 296-7)^[1] propose an Austroasiatic origin and consider it cognate to Mon ဒံၚ် (tòŋ, “to dance while under daemonic possession; to proceed by leaps”), ဒေါၚ် (tòŋ, “shaman called in to organise kəlok dances”), etc.; they even propose Austroasiatic etymology for Chinese 童 (“(dialectal) shaman”). Sagart (2008:142) counts Vietnamese đồng among "Austroasiatic terms", yet he considers the resemblance between those and Chinese 童 (“(dialectal) shaman”) to be "undoubtedly fortuitous".^[2]

Alternatively, Vietnamese đồng may also likely be a Sino-Vietnamese word from 童 (“child; servant; (dialectal) shaman”).

đồng

1. (divination, spiritualism) medium

   ông đồng ― male medium

   bà đồng ― female medium

   thứ nhất ngồi đồng, thứ nhì chồng quan ― sitting (as) a medium ranks first; having an official for a husband ranks second [among the best things for women]

   • 1820, 阮攸 [Nguyễn Du], compiled by Liễu Văn Đường, 傳翹 [Truyện Kiều], published 1866, line 1162:

     𨔍(Lạ)之(gì)󰜋(một)骨(cốt)󰜋(một)同(đồng)初(xưa)󰅒(nay)

     Little wonder that the witch and the medium have been working hand in glove with each other!

Sino-Vietnamese word from 銅 (“copper”).

• ₫
• Đ.

đồng

1. copper
2. dong (currency of Vietnam)
3. (colloquial, chiefly Southern Vietnam) a thousand dongs

   hai đồng ― two thousand dongs

4. (historical) dong (currency of South Vietnam)
5. (by extension) a currency

   đồng yên Nhật ― the Japanese yen

   đồng đô-la Mĩ ― the US dollar

• → Cantonese: 盾 (teon⁵)
• → English: dong
• → Japanese: ドン (don)
• → Korean: 동 (dong)
• → Mandarin: 盾 (dùn)
• → Russian: донг (dong)

đồng

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 同