cá mực

Vietnamese

Etymology

cá (“fish”) +‎ mực (“ink”), semantically paralleling English inkfish (“cuttlefish, squid, or octopus”) and Chinese 墨魚 (“cuttlefish”, literally “inkfish”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kaː˧˦ mɨk̚˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kaː˨˩˦ mɨk̚˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kaː˦˥ mɨk̚˨˩˨]

Noun

(classifier con) cá mực

  1. inkfish (a cephalopod of the Coleoidea subclass, which comprises octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish)
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