臘

臘 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 月女女女 (BVVV), four-corner 7221₇, composition ⿰月巤(GJKV) or ⿰⺼巤(HT))

• 𡅘, 𢺎, 𥸆, 𧅕

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 997, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30009
• Dae Jaweon: page 1448, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2123, character 6
• Unihan data for U+81D8

• Unihan data for U+F926

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *raːb): semantic ⺼ (“meat”) + phonetic 巤 (OC *rab).

Uncertain.

• Bodde (1975) cites Zheng Xuan's comment on the relation between 臘 (OC *raːb, “year-end sacrifice”) and 獵 (OC *rab, “hunt”);
• Boltz (1979) instead relates it to a much later word written with the same phonetic & meaning "to cut off, to terminate" (of a year);
• Schuessler (2007) proposes an alternative Sino-Tibetan etymology: just as the 葉 (OC *hljeb, *leb) word-family encompasses the meanings "leaf > foliage, year, generation"; so the root *râp "new year, change of year" is apparently a parallel etymon, which also is cognate with Tibetan རབས། (rabs, “generation”) (Bodman, 1980).

臘

1. year-end sacrifice to the gods
2. twelfth month of the Chinese lunar calendar
3. dried preserved meat; cured meat

   燒臘／烧腊  ―  shāolà  ―  preserved or roasted meat

   臘鴨／腊鸭  ―  làyā  ―  dried preserved duck

• Sino-Xenic (臘):
• → Vietnamese: lạp (臘)

(Non-Sino-Xenic):

• → Tocharian B: rapaññe

• “臘”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: ろう (rō)^{←らふ (rafu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ろう (rō)^{←らふ (rafu, historical)}

臘(ろう) • (rō) ^{←らふ (rafu)?}

1. a Buddhist ceremony held in winter on the third day of the dog
2. the twelfth month of the lunar-solar calendar
3. a year in Buddhism after one completes a meditation retreat

• (twelfth month): 臘月

臘 • (rap>nap) (hangeul 랍>납, revised rap>nap, McCune–Reischauer rap>nap, Yale lap>nap)

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臘: Hán Việt readings: lạp^[1][2][3]
臘: Nôm readings: chạp^[1][2][3][4], chợp^[3][4], láp^[1], lảp, lép^[1][3][4], liếp^[4], lốp^[1], rạp^[1], rệp^[1], sáp^[1]

1. chữ Hán form of lạp
2. chữ Nôm form of chạp (“twelfth lunar month”)
3. chữ Nôm form of chợp (“to nap”)
4. chữ Nôm form of láp
5. chữ Nôm form of lép (“(of seed) underdeveloped”)
6. chữ Nôm form of liếp
7. chữ Nôm form of lốp
8. chữ Nôm form of rạp (“to lie flat”)
9. chữ Nôm form of rệp (“bedbug”)
10. chữ Nôm form of sáp (“wax”)

• Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) “臘 LẢP”, in Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[2] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]