nhá

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɲaː˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ɲaː˨˩˦]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɲaː˦˥]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *s-ɲaːʔ (“to chew; to masticate”).

Verb

nhá (呀, 蚜)

(especially of an old person) to chew (carefully, usually something hard to eat); to masticate
to ring someone and then immediately hang up so that they'll call you back and get charged for you

Etymology 2

Particle

nhá

(colloquial) Eye dialect spelling of nhé.

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