vui

• vej (West Central Bavarian, alternative pronunciation)
• vü (East Central Bavarian)

Cognate with German viel.

• IPA^(key): /fui̯/ (West Central Bavarian)

vui

1. many, much

vui

1. much

Borrowed from Italian bue, from Latin bos. Compare Sicilian voi.

vui n (Greek spelling βούι)

1. ox

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /vuˈi/

a vui (third-person singular present vuiește, past participle vuit) 4th conjugation

1. to make noise, roar, boom, thunder, rumble, din
2. to swish
3. to mutter

• vuiet

• “vui”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• (North Central Vietnam) bui (no lenition)
• (nonstandard orthography based on Southern dialects, internet slang) dzui

Inherited from Proto-Vietic *t-puːj (“joyful”). Cognate with Muong pui, Tho [Cuối Chăm] puːj¹ and Chut [Rục] təpuːj¹. Compare also Nghệ An/Hà Tĩnh dialects bui.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經, c. 12th cent.) as 𬐩, consisting of 司 (MC si) + 盃 (MC pwoj) (modern SV: ti bôi). Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese ꞗui (already undergone lenition) in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vuj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vuj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [vuj˧˧] ~ [juj˧˧]

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vui • (盃, 𢝙, 𢠿, 𣡝, 𬐩)

1. merry; joyful; gay

   Antonym: buồn

   niềm vui ― joy

   • 1928, Hồ Biểu Chánh, chapter V, in Chút phận linh đình:

     - Sài Gòn vui quá má hả! Phải ba còn, ba đem mình về trong nầy ở thì vui biết chừng nào.

     "Saigon really is lively, don't you think so, mom? If dad was still alive, just think about all the fun we could have had if he took us here."

Compare Tajik бӯй (büy).

vui

1. smell