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).