cộm
See also: Appendix:Variations of "com"
Vietnamese
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adjective
cộm • (㯲) (diminutive reduplication cồm cộm)
- bulging; stuffed
- phong bì dày cộm ― thick, bulging envelope
- (of skin, especially the eye) gritty; scratchy; having a foreign body sensation
- Mắt thấy hơi cộm như bị bụi bay vào.
- The eye feels slightly gritty, as if dust had blown into it.
Derived terms
References
- “cộm”, in Soha Tra Từ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Vietnam Communications Corporation. Available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.