quả phụ

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 寡婦, composed of 寡 (“widowed”) and 婦 (“wife; woman”). Doublet of goá bụa.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kwaː˧˩ fu˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kwaː˧˨ fʊw˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [waː˨˩˦ fʊw˨˩˨]

Noun

quả phụ

  1. a widow (woman whose spouse has died)

See also

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.