ba quân
See also: bá quan
Vietnamese
Etymology
Calque of Chinese 三軍／三军 (tam quân, “three armies”), referring to battle formations in ancient China that consisted of three battalions (left, center and right).
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓaː˧˧ kwən˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓaː˧˧ kwəŋ˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɓaː˧˧ wəŋ˧˧]
Noun
- the entire or all of the military forces
- 5th century BCE (published), Sun Tzu (attributed), The Art of War, ch. 5; 1953 (published) Vietnamese translation by Ngô Văn Triện; 1993 English translation by Ralph D. Sawyer
- Ba quân đông đúc, có thể khiến thụ địch cả mà không thua, bởi vì đã có kỳ chính.
- What enable the masses of the Three Armies to invariably withstand the enemy without being defeated are the unorthodox and the orthodox.
- 1804, Ngô Gia Văn Phái (Ngô Household's Writers), Hoàng Lê Nhất Thống Chí (Records of the Unification of the Imperial Lê), Ch. 3; Vietnamese translation by Ngô Đức Vân & Kiều Thu Hoạch
- Hoàng thượng cho ba quân vào lạy ở sân điện Vạn-thọ, tuyên chỉ uý lạo họ.
- The Emperor allowed the entire army to enter the atrium of the Hall of Longevity to bow down to him, then [He] issued an edict to console them.
- 5th century BCE (published), Sun Tzu (attributed), The Art of War, ch. 5; 1953 (published) Vietnamese translation by Ngô Văn Triện; 1993 English translation by Ralph D. Sawyer
References
- Tầm nguyên từ điển, 1941, Lê Văn Hòe
- "ba quân" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
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