mươi

See also: muoi, muôi, muối, muỗi, mười, and muội

Nung

Noun

mươi

ice

References

Từ điển Tày Nùng

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mɨəj˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [mɨj˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [mɨj˧˧]

Etymology 1

A variant of mười (“ten”), perhaps from an originally prefixed form.

Noun

mươi (𠦩, 𨑮)

(only in compounds) ten
tám mươi ― eighty

Usage notes

Like the English word dozen, mươi is a noun that must be paired with a cardinal number or determiner to function as the numeral meaning exactly ten. The numeral equivalent to mươi is mười.

Synonyms

(ten): chục

Related terms

(ten): trăm, ngàn, nghìn, triệu, tỷ, tỉ, muôn

Numeral

mươi (𠦩, 𨑮)

about ten
mươi ngày ― about ten days

mươi đồng ― about ten dong

Etymology 2

Noun

mươi

(rare) frost

Synonyms

(frost): sương giá

References

"mươi" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

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