dớp

Vietnamese

Etymology

Doublet of nhớp. The ‹nh-› vs. ‹d-› correspondence can also be seen in pairs such as nhện vs. dện, nhím vs. dím, nhừ vs. dừ, etc. Unlike those pairs however, which are pretty much synonymous, this term seems to have undergone a semantical development from "dirty" > "bad luck".

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zəːp̚˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jəːp̚˦˧˥]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [jəːp̚˦˥]

Noun

dớp • (󱮢, 葉)

bad luck due to repeated failures beforehand