tình bạn

Vietnamese

Etymology

tình (情, “sentiment, feeling”) +‎ bạn (伴, “friend”), the word order is Vietnamese native head-initial. Likely a calque of Chinese 友情 (yǒuqíng).

Superficially Sino-Vietnamese word from 情伴.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tïŋ˨˩ ʔɓaːn˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tɨn˦˩ ʔɓaːŋ˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [tɨn˨˩ ʔɓaːŋ˨˩˨]

Noun

tình bạn

  1. friendship (condition of being friends)
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