bạc

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaːk̚˧˨ʔ]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaːk̚˩˧]

From Vietnamese bác (“paternal uncle”).

bạc (博)

1. paternal uncle, father's elder brother

   po̱ bạc ― (polite) uncle

• bạc pả

From Vietnamese bạc (“silver”).

bạc

1. silver
2. money

   tức bạc ― gamble

• ngần

• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[3] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːk̚˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːk̚˨˩ʔ]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːk̚˨˩˨]
• Homophone: bạt (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam)

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Inherited from Proto-Vietic *baːk (“white”), a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 白 (“white”, SV: bạch). Cognate with Proto-Pong *paːk⁸ (“white”), Pong paːk, Thổ pɐːk⁸. The semantic development “white” > “silver” parallels that of vàng (“yellow” > “gold”).

bạc • (白, 鉑, 礴)

1. silver
2. (informal) money

bạc • (白, 鉑, 礴)

1. silver (either in material or in appearance)
2. (figurative, of hair) gray

   Tóc thầy bạc trắng như mây. ― The teacher's hair is gray like clouds.

Sino-Vietnamese word from 薄.

bạc • (泊, 萡, 薄)

1. (of fate or life) miserable; ill

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 博 (“to gamble”, SV: bác).

bạc

1. short for bài bạc (“gambling”)

   Đen tình, đỏ bạc. ― Bad luck in romance brings good luck in gambling.