đường

See also: Đường and đương

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

A loanword (SEALang). Compare (OC *ɡl'aːŋ) ("road inside a temple; big road") & Proto-Tai *da:ŋᴮ (road, way)[1], whence Thai ทาง (taang), Lao ທາງ (thāng), Northern Thai ᨴᩤ᩠ᨦ, ᦑᦱᧂ (taang), Shan တၢင်း (táang); although possibly of ultimate Austroasiatic origin (Schuessler, 2007), confer Proto-Mon-Khmer *glɔɔŋ[2]. Shorto proposes a possible South Bahnaric origin, compare Koho pədyaŋ, Central Mnong rdɛ:ŋ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *rɗiŋ ~ *rɗiəŋ

The native Vietnamese term is the , inherited from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kraʔ, now fossilized and only found in compounds like đường sá (roads) and sá cày (furrow).

See also dialectal form đàng. Compare nác and nước, đang and đương, kim cang and kim cương.

Noun

(classifier con) đường

  1. road
    • 1921 January, Lu Xun, 故乡 [Hometown], translated as Cố hương by Trương Chính:
      Tôi đang mơ màng, thì trước mắt tôi hiện ra cảnh tượng một cánh đồng cát, màu xanh biếc, cạnh bờ biển; trên vòm trời xanh đậm, treo lửng lơ một vừng trăng tròn vàng thắm. Tôi nghĩ bụng: đã gọi là hy vọng thì không thể nói đâu là thực, đâu là hư. Cũng giống như những con đường trên mặt đất; kỳ thực, trên mặt đất vốn làm gì có đường. Người ta đi mãi thì thành đường thôi.
      I was pondering, and then there was this deep-green sandy beach in front of me; and a golden full moon hanging in the blue sky. I thought to myself: you can’t really tell what’s real and what’s not about hope. Kind of like roads; if you think about it, there’s no such thing as a road. Only when people have passed by back and forth enough times, roads start to form.
  2. path
  3. line
  4. tube
Derived terms
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See also

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Noun

đường

  1. sugar
Synonyms
  • chất đường
Derived terms
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References

  1. *da:ŋ.B at The Tower of Babel Project
  2. Shorto, H. A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary, Ed. Paul Sidwell, 2006. Entry 736, p. 226
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