đỡ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "do"

Vietnamese

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 助 (“to help”, SV: trợ).

to raise (someone) from a fall; to lift up
to prop; to support
to take in one's hands (what is offered, given); to help down with some load
to parry; to ward off
(colloquial) to help; to give a hand
to reduce (a negative emotion or situation); to relieve
- 1957, Đoàn Giỏi, chapter 8, in Đất rừng phương Nam, Kim Đồng:
  Không có một tiếng vạc sành kêu cho đỡ buồn.
  Not one cricket chirped to reduce the sadness.
to get better (after falling sick); to recover
Em đỡ chưa? ― Feeling better? / Recovered yet?
Short for đỡ đẻ (“to deliver (a woman in childbirth)”).

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