cá hố

Vietnamese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What does the second element mean? Surely it can't be "hố" 'hole'.”)

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kaː˧˦ ho˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kaː˨˩˦ how˨˩˦]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kaː˦˥ how˦˥]

Noun

(classifier con) cá hố

  1. largehead hairtail, cutlassfish (Trichiurus lepturus)
    Synonyms: cá đao, cá hố đầu rộng
  2. (by extension) various species of cutlassfish
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.