trầu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "trau"

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Vietic *b-luː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ml(əw) (“betel”). Cognate with Bahnar bơlŏu, Mon ဇဗၠူ (həplùˀ) and Khmer ម្លូ (mluu).

Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese blầu in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

The formal name (tên chữ) of Phù Lưu village (扶留 (MC bju ljuw)) in Bắc Ninh, whose demotic name (tên Nôm) is Giầu, attests to the existence of proto-form /*blu ~ *bliu/ in Northern Old Vietnamese.[1]

Alternative forms

  • (Northern Vietnam) giầu (with *bl- > ‹gi-›)
  • (North Central Vietnam) trù (no diphthongization)

Noun

(classifier cây, lá) trầu • (𫈜, 𫑱, 𣞾)

  1. betel

(classifier miếng) trầu

  1. paan
    bã trầu ― discarded (spit out) chewed paans
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See rầu for the sound change.

Noun

trầu

  1. Bình Định and Phú Yên form of trời (“sky, heaven”)
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Trần Quốc Vượng (historian) (2000) “Từ truyền thuyết, ngữ ngôn đến lịch sử [From legend, linguistics, to history]”, in Văn hóa Việt Nam: Tìm tòi và suy ngẫm [Vietnamese culture: Investigation and Pondering] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Văn hóa dân tộc [Culture Of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups Publishing House], page 254
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