đèn lồng
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Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]đèn (“light”) + lồng (“cage”), a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 燈籠 (SV: đăng lung).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛn˨˩ ləwŋ͡m˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛŋ˦˩ ləwŋ͡m˦˩]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗɛŋ˨˩ ləwŋ͡m˨˩]
Noun
[edit]- Synonym of lồng đèn (“lantern”)
- Đèn lồng đỏ treo cao cao ― Raise High the Red Lantern (a film by Zhang Yimou).