lõ

Kalasha

Noun

lõ

  1. alternative spelling of l'õ'

Vietnamese

Etymology

mũi lõ

Attested as blỏ in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).[1] Possibly related to lò (adjective) and ló.

Pronunciation

Adjective

lõ • (魯)

  1. Of nose or physique: prominent
    mũi lõ ― long and narrow nose; prominent nose
    gầy lõ xương ― bony; very skinny

Usage notes

  • Lõ is almost exclusively used to describe someone's nose, and is usually associated with Westerners or Caucasians.
  • Consequently, the word could still be understood as describing some person's nose in situations where it is used to modify a noun or pronoun representing the said person, i.e. "Tây lõ" to mean "big-nosed Westerner".

Derived terms

  • lõ lẹo
  • mắt xanh mũi lõ

References

  1. ^ Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “blỏ”, in Dictionarium Annnamiticum[sic] Lusitanum, et Latinum‎[1] (in Latin and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide
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