lảng
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [laːŋ˧˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [laːŋ˧˨]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [laːŋ˨˩˦]
Verb
lảng
- to sneak away; to take French leave
- to digress; to try to avoid talking about something; to turn away
- 1936, Vũ Trọng Phụng, chapter 2, in Số đỏ, Hà Nội báo:
- Muốn lảng chuyện, ông ta bảo người lính xuống nhà giam tạm, lôi bọn người bị bắt lên lấy cung.
- Wishing to turn the conversation away [from this topic], he told the policeman to go down to the temporary prison and drag the arrested people up for interrogation.
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