rầm rập

Vietnamese

Etymology

From diminutive reduplication of rập (“to follow, copy”).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zəm˨˩ zəp̚˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʐəm˦˩ ʐəp̚˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ɹəm˨˩ ɹəp̚˨˩˨]

Adjective

rầm rập

  1. (onomatopoeia) Used to describe heavy, fast, and continuous sounds of many people or vehicles moving together; tramping; thundering; rumbling; stampeding
    quân đi rầm rập ― the troops march thunderously

References

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