lôm nhôm

Vietnamese

Etymology

From l- reduplication of nhôm.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [lom˧˧ ɲom˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [lom˧˧ ɲom˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [lom˧˧ ɲom˧˧]

Adjective

lôm nhôm

  1. (rare) messy; jumbled; patchy; haphazard; incomplete
    Synonyms: nham nhở, nhôm nhoam
    đào bới lôm nhômto dig around messily

References

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