poob

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *pʉŋᴬ (“to fall”), probably borrowed from Middle Chinese 崩 (MC pong, “to collapse, crumble”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɒ̃˥/

Verb

poob

  1. to drop, fall down, fall from a height
    Me nyuam poob ntoo. ― The kid falls (from the) tree.
  2. (figuratively) to fall in a moral sense
  3. to lose, fail
    Nws poob nyiaj rau kev twv txiaj. ― He loses money to gambling.
    Nws poob hoob. ― He fails a class.

Derived terms

  • poob dej (“to drown”)
  • poob siab (“despair, being scared or discouraged”)

References

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 234.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 180; 281.
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