bách thanh

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 百 (“hundred”) and 聲 (“sound, voice”).

Semantically, compare Japanese 百舌 (mozu, “shrike”), where both the actual etymology and the consequent spelling contain an element meaning "hundred". Compare also Chinese 伯勞 / 伯劳 (bóláo, “shrike”), where the first element can be read in Sino-Vietnamese as bách (aside from the more common bá).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓajk̟̚˧˦ tʰajŋ̟˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓat̚˦˧˥ tʰɛɲ˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓat̚˦˥ tʰan˧˧]

Noun

(classifier con) bách thanh

  1. shrike
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