đường phổi
Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]đường (“sugar”) + phổi (“lungs”). The descriptor "lungs" is either due to its porous texture, or due to the shape of đường phổi blocks, which might resemble the lobe of the lungs.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗɨəŋ˨˩ foj˧˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗɨəŋ˦˩ foj˧˨]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗɨəŋ˨˩ foj˨˩˦]
Noun
[edit]- a kind of cane sugar, specialty of Quảng Ngãi