nhoáng

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Vietnamese nháng (“a flash”) as in chớp nháng (“a flash of lightning”). Attested in Chỉ nam ngọc âm giải nghĩa (指南玉音解義) "Thi Tiên chớp nháng vi quang".

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɲwaːŋ˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ɲwaːŋ˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ɲwaːŋ˦˥]

Noun

nhoáng • (晄)

  1. a short while, a moment

Derived terms

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.