muông

See also: Muong, muỗng, and Mường

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *t-mɔːŋ (“civet”). Compare Mang muaŋ⁶ ("civet").

Aside from a few compounds, the word is no longer used in Vietnamese. It also seems to once function of a classifier for a few animals, as attested in muông ſư tử (“a lion”) (in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum) and 獴麟 (muông lân, “a female of the qilin”) (in the Thi kinh giải âm, 詩經解音, a giải âm quasi-translation of the Shijing).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [muəŋ˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [muəŋ˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [muəŋ˧˧]
Homophone: muôn

Noun

muông • (獴, 𪺿, 𤡌)

(obsolete) a quadruped

Derived terms

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