càng
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "cang"
Mandarin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- cang — nonstandard
- càŋ — very rare shorthand
Romanization
[edit]- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 賶
Nùng
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
[edit]càng
- (intransitive) to speak
Tày
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Tai *ɢaːŋᴬ (“chin; jaw”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨣᩤ᩠ᨦ, Lao ຄາງ (khāng), Lü ᦅᦱᧂ (kaang), Tai Dam ꪁꪱꪉ, Shan ၵၢင်း (káang), Ahom 𑜀𑜂𑜫 (kaṅ), Zhuang hangz, Bouyei haangz, Thai คาง (kaang).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [kaːŋ˧˨]
- (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [gʱaːŋ˩]
Noun
[edit]càng (𱓳)
- jaw
- càng khẻo ― set of teeth
- ả pác cặm càng ― to open one's mouth and have the jaw get in the way
- chin
- càng nhuốt ― beardy chin
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary][1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
- Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày][3] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
- Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary][4] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient
Vietnamese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 更 (SV: cánh).
Adverb
[edit]- With a comparative or verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
- Bản nhạc này càng nghe càng thấy hay.
- The song sounds better the more you listen to it.
- khó khăn càng nhiều, quyết tâm càng cao
- to be more determined the harder it gets
- all the more, all the less
- Có gió, lửa càng bốc to.
- With wind, fire rages all the more.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Vietic *gaːŋ (“crab pincers”).
Noun
[edit]- nipper, pincer
- large, strong hind leg of a locust, grasshopper, or cricket; jumping leg
- shaft (one of the handles of a tool, or one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle)
- càng xe bò
- oxcart shaft
- càng pháo
- tay càng của kìm cộng lực
- bolt cutter handles
- (slang) wing mirror (of a motorcycle)
References
[edit]- "càng" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
- Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)
Categories:
- Hanyu Pinyin
- Mandarin non-lemma forms
- Nùng lemmas
- Nùng verbs
- Nùng intransitive verbs
- Tày terms inherited from Proto-Tai
- Tày terms derived from Proto-Tai
- Tày terms with IPA pronunciation
- Tày lemmas
- Tày nouns
- Tày terms with usage examples
- Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Vietnamese terms derived from Chinese
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese adverbs
- Vietnamese terms with usage examples
- Vietnamese terms inherited from Proto-Vietic
- Vietnamese terms derived from Proto-Vietic
- Vietnamese nouns
- Vietnamese slang