bồm bộp

See also: bôm bốp

Vietnamese

Etymology

From diminutive reduplication of bộp.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓom˨˩ ʔɓop̚˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓom˦˩ ʔɓop̚˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓom˨˩ ʔɓop̚˨˩˨]

Adjective

bồm bộp • (𠶙𠶙)

  1. (onomatopoeia) Used to describe a dull, muffled, repetitive sound, typically produced when a hard object strikes something soft, hollow, or not solid: thudding; pounding; thumping
    vỗ bồm bộp vào vai ― to slap thump-thump on the shoulder

References

  • “bồm bộp”, in Soha Tra Từ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Vietnam Communications Corporation. Available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.
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