đèn lồng

Vietnamese

Etymology

đèn (“light”) +‎ lồng (“cage”), a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 燈籠 (SV: đăng lung).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛn˨˩ ləwŋ͡m˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛŋ˦˩ ləwŋ͡m˦˩]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛŋ˨˩ ləwŋ͡m˨˩]

Noun

đèn lồng

  1. synonym of lồng đèn (“lantern”)
    Đèn lồng đỏ treo cao cao ― Raise High the Red Lantern (a film by Zhang Yimou).
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