phải gió

phải gió

1. to catch a cold and faint

• Vietnamese: phải gió

Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “phải gió”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide

From phải +‎ gió.

Attested as phải gió in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

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

phải gió

1. to catch a cold and faint

   phải gió lăn ra đùng

   to catch a cold and faint with a thud

2. (sarcastic) to suddenly fall victim to an unidentified illness

In Vietnamese folk medicine, it is thought that harmful wind can penetrate the body, leading to illness or death. This term is sometimes used ironically to emphasize the suddenness of an illness or death.

phải gió

1. (Northern Vietnam, sometimes sarcastic, optionally followed by (cái) nhà (literally “house”) and a suitable pronoun or kinship term) why you little; you son of a gun

   Phải gió nhà anh! Giấu cái mũ đâu rồi?

   You little twat! Where did you hide my hat?

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