hỏi cung

Vietnamese

Etymology

hỏi +‎ cung; the second element is Sino-Vietnamese word from 供 (“confession”), also seen in ép cung.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [hɔj˧˩ kʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [hɔj˧˨ kʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [hɔj˨˩˦ kʊwŋ͡m˧˧]

Verb

hỏi cung

  1. to interrogate; to question; to grill
    hỏi cung kẻ tình nghi là quân khủng bố ― to interrogate a suspected terrorist
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.