nhục

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɲʊwk͡p̚˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ɲʊwk͡p̚˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ɲʊwk͡p̚˨˩˨]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 辱.

Adjective

nhục

  1. humiliated; dishonored
    Chết vinh còn hơn sống nhục.
    It's better to die an honored death than to live a dishonored life.
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Etymology 2

Within Vietic, certain languages possess a loan from the same source, cf. Pong kɲuk⁷ and similar forms in several Muong lects with tone B1/D1 (Muong Bi nhúc). The corresponding Vietnamese form would be the unattested *nhúc, which was apparently lost after the Common-Viet-Muong stage during the development of Vietnamese and did not replace the native Vietic word thịt.

Romanization

nhục

  1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 肉 (“meat”)
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