giữ

• jữ

giữ

1. to keep, to hold and maintain as one's own

   giữ mà đợng

   to keep in storage

2. to safeguard

   giữ nhà

   to keep watch over a house

   giữ cửa giữ nhà

   to keep watch over the whole property

   giữ đạo

   to keep the faith

   giữ đạo cho blọn

   to be fully faithful

   giữ ngày lễ lạy

   to observe the holy days of obligation

   Đức thánh Anjo giữ mình

   Angel of God, watch over me

   giữ lễ nhít

   to keep the Sabbath

   noi giữ đạo Chúa

   to be wholly faithful to Christianity

   giữ mềnh

   to protect oneself

   giữ lểy

   to take care of oneself

   lếy dấu thánh mà giữ mềnh

   to protect oneself with holy relics

   Dù mà có đạo sao᷃ le cu᷃̃ phải giữ.

   Those belonging to the faith must also keep the faith.

• (to safeguard): thủ, trấn, trực
• (to keep): lưu, trữ

• gìn giữ
• giữ canh
• giữ giàng
• giữ nghĩa

• Vietnamese: giữ

• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “giữ”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “blọn”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “chực tiét”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “cửa”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “đạo”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “đợng”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “đức”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “lễ”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “lếy”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “noi”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “phào᷃ mềnh”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “thủ”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “trấn”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “trực”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “De Verbis”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide

• (North Central Vietnam) chữ (in dialects without ngã-nặng merger)
• (North Central Vietnam) chự (in dialects with ngã-nặng merger)

From Proto-Vietic *k-cɨh. Cognate with Muong Bi chữ and Chut [Rục] kɨcɨː⁴.

Attested as giữ in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɨ˦ˀ˥]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jɨ˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jɨ˨˩˦]
• Homophone: dữ

giữ • (𡨸, 𪧚, 𫳘, 㑏, 𡨹, 𡨺, 𧵤, 𢬇, 拧, 貯)

1. to keep; to hold and maintain as one's own

   Hãy giữ lịch sự! ― Stay polite!

   Giữ cái này chặt lại không thôi nó sẽ rớt ra.

   Keep this tight or else it will fall out.

   giữ khoảng cách an toàn ― to keep a safe distance

2. to safeguard