Hoả Lò

See also: hoa lơ

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• Hỏa Lò

Etymology

The demotic name (tên Nôm) for the village. Named after an eponymous steet, due to the concentration of stores selling wood stoves and coal-fire stoves along the street in pre-colonial times. Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 火爐 (SV: hoả lô).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hwaː˧˩ lɔ˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hwaː˧˨ lɔ˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [waː˨˩˦ lɔ˨˩]

Proper noun

Hoả Lò

1. (historical) Phụ Khánh (a historical village in Vĩnh Xương canton, Thọ Xương district, Hanoi, Vietnam)

   nhà tù Hoả Lò ― Hoả Lò Prison