nải

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nai"
See also: nảy, nãy, and nẩy

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *c-naːs < *c-rn-aːs (an infixed form of *caːs (“to comb”)). Doublet of chải.

For the semantic relationship, compare Khmer សិត (sət, “to comb”) and ស្និត (snət, “classifier for hands of bananas”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [naːj˧˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [naːj˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [naːj˨˩˦]
  • Audio (Hà Nội):(file)

Noun

nải • (乃)

  1. (of bananas) hand

Derived terms

  • chuối cả nải
  • nải chuối
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