thảo
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Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Sino-Vietnamese word from 草. Doublet of tháu.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰaːw˧˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰaːw˧˨]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰaːw˨˩˦]
- Homophone: Thảo
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)
Noun
[edit](classifier cây) thảo
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[edit]Verb
[edit]thảo
- to write, to draft
- 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Truyện Kiều (傳翹) [The Tale of Kieu], Liễu Văn Ðường edition, published 1866, lines 1313 - 1314:
生 強 𤏣 強 𠸦 寫 情 𢬣 草 天 律 唐 - The young man conceived a great admiration for his sweetheart as he considered her qualities more deeply.
Unable to keep those sentiments to himself, he improvised and wrote to her a poem in a particular form of Tang prosody.
- The young man conceived a great admiration for his sweetheart as he considered her qualities more deeply.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]- to be pious, to be generous, to be open-handed, to be devoted, to be virtuous, to be dutiful
- 13th century, Trần Nhân Tông, “Đệ thất hội 第七會 [Seventh]”, in Cư Trần lạc đạo phú 居塵樂道賦 [Living in the Dusty World and Enjoying the Way]:
義 矣 汝 道 莊 涓 香 花 供 娂 群 年 討 - When one is mindful of rectitude and forgets not the Way, offered incense and blossoms seem still pious
- Nam Giao cổ kim lý hạng ca dao chú giải (《南交古金里巷歌謠註解》 "Southern Folk-ballads from the Hamlets and Alleys - Annotated and Explained")
𢄂 𬁑 蒌 㐌 痚 𠫾 𥙩 夷 敬 媄 𥙩 夷 討 㛪 - At midday, vegetables in the market already wilted;
What shall I dutifully offer my mother and generously give my little siblings?
- At midday, vegetables in the market already wilted;
- Lam Giang, Võ Ngọc Nhã (1970) Đặng Đức Tuấn Tinh Hoa Công Giáo Ái Quốc Việt Nam [Đặng Đức Tuấn - A Catholic Vietnamese Patriot's Quintessence], page 503; quoted in “Xuất xứ và ý nghĩa của hai từ ‘lương dân’ – ‘giáo dân’ [The etymologies and meanings of the two words ‘lương dân’ and ‘giáo dân’]”, in nghiencuuquocte.org[[1], (Can we date this quote?)
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