bừa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bua"

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 耙 (SV: bà) preceding the formalization of Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation.[1]

Noun

(classifier cái) bừa • (耚)

  1. rake; harrow

Verb

bừa • (耚)

  1. to rake; to harrow

See also
Derived terms
  • cày bừa

Adjective

bừa

  1. helter-skelter; topsy-turvy
  2. rash; random; reckless
    Cứ để bừa ở đâu đi.
    You should just put it wherever.
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Derived terms

References
  1. Alves, Mark J. (2014 July 22) “A Note on the Early Sino-Vietnamese Loanword for ‘Rake/Harrow’”, in Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale‎, volume 43, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 32–38
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