Hoả Lò

See also: hoa lơ

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Etymology

The demotic name (tên Nôm) for the village. Named after an eponymous steet, due to the concentration of stores selling wood stoves and coal-fire stoves along the street in pre-colonial times. Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 火爐 (SV: hoả lô).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [hwaː˧˩ lɔ˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [hwaː˧˨ lɔ˦˩]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [waː˨˩˦ lɔ˨˩]

Proper noun

Hoả Lò

  1. (historical) Phụ Khánh (a historical village in Vĩnh Xương canton, Thọ Xương district, Hanoi, Vietnam)
    nhà tù Hoả Lò ― Hoả Lò Prison
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