nghé

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ŋɛ˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ŋɛ˦]

nghé (𱻊)

1. the; a

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

Compare Thai แหง่ and Chinese 牛 (MC ngjuw) (and its cognates in other Sino-Tibetan languages), which are all possibly of ultimately imitative origin.

(classifier con) nghé • (𤚇, 𤚢, 󰍀, 𤛞, 犠, 猊, 霓, 麑)

1. water buffalo calf; baby water buffalo

   Holonym: trâu

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

nghé • (睨, 𥇚, 𥊘, 𥋟)

1. to glance sidelong; to peek

   nghé mắt nhòm qua khe cửa ― to peek through the crack in the door

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