tách

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tajk̟̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tat̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tat̚˦˥]

From French tasse.

tách

1. cup (with a handle)

   tách trà ― cup of tea

   mua bộ tách ấm ― to buy a set of cups and teapot

• chén
• cốc
• ly, li

From Proto-Vietic *sɛːk, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *saik ~ *siək (“to skin, peel”); cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] sɛːk⁷, Old Mon snāk (“two-edged sword”) (modern Mon သၞာ် (hnaik, “two-edged sword”)), Nyaheun saːk ("to tear"). Compare also tạch.

tách • (㳻, 索, 𤇩)

1. to separate, to split

   tách quả bưởi ra từng múi ― to split apart the pommelo into its segments

   tách riêng từng vấn đề để xem xét ― to review each issue separately

2. to snap, to pop

   Quả đỗ phơi nổ tách một cái.

   The bean popped as it was drying.

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