cốp

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cop"

Tày

Pronunciation

Noun

cốp (𫊩)

  1. alternative form of côp (frog)

References

  • Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) “𫊩 CỐP”, in Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎[1] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From French coffre (trunk, boot).

Noun

cốp

  1. trunk (of a car, motorbike, etc.); boot
    Synonym: hòm xe
    cốp xe máyunderseat storage of a scooter

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Adjective

cốp • (𠺻) (diminutive reduplication côm cốp)

  1. (onomatopoeia) Describing a low-pitched, sharp and brief sound from two hard objects bumping into each other; with a knock
    cộc đầu đánh cốp vào tườngto bang the head hard against the wall with a knock
Derived terms

Verb

cốp

  1. (colloquial, rare) synonym of cốc (to hit with the knuckle)

References

  • cốp”, in Soha Tra Từ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Vietnam Communications Corporation. Available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.