ngắc ngoải

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ŋak̚˧˦ ŋwaːj˧˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ŋak̚˦˧˥ ŋwaːj˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ŋak̚˦˥ ŋwaːj˨˩˦]

Verb

ngắc ngoải

  1. be at death's door, be at the point of death

References

Hồ Ngọc Đức, editor (2003), “ngắc ngoải”, in Việt–Việt[1] (DICT), Leipzig: Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details), archived from the original on 12 November 2024