chạp

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 臘 (“the 12th month of the lunar year”, SV: lạp).

The same development of the initial can also be seen with chàng & possibly also chuồng (if the latter were indeed an early Chinese loan according to Alves, 2018).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕaːp̚˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [t͡ɕaːp̚˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [caːp̚˨˩˨]

Noun

chạp • (臘)

  1. the 12th month of the lunar year

Derived terms

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