cá mặt trăng

Vietnamese

Etymology

cá +‎ mặt trăng. Perhaps a calque of a European language. For semantic relations, compare French poisson-lune, German Mondfisch, Norwegian månefisk.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kaː˧˦ mat̚˧˨ʔ t͡ɕaŋ˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kaː˨˩˦ mak̚˨˩ʔ ʈaŋ˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kaː˦˥ mak̚˨˩˨ ʈaŋ˧˧]

Noun

(classifier con) cá mặt trăng

  1. an ocean sunfish (Mola mola).
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