ngủ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ngu"

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from Kra-Dai, compare Baha ŋu¹¹ (“to sleep”) and Proto-Hlai *hŋuːɦ (“to sleep, to lie down”) (whence ŋow²~kaw²~kʰoː²~kɔː² across modern lects and Jiamao ŋɔ⁴).

Some of the conservative Vietic languages (namely, Thavung) use the cognates of the Vietnamese word nằm (“to lie”) with semantic extension to "to sleep", along with "to lie".

Pronunciation
  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ŋu˧˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ŋʊw˧˨]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ŋʊw˨˩˦]
  • Audio (Hồ Chí Minh City)(file)

Verb

ngủ • (㬳, 𥄭, 𥄬, 𪿀)

  1. (intransitive) to sleep
    đi ngủ ― to go to bed/sleep
    ngủ gật/gục ― to doze
    ngủ trưa ― to nap at noon
    ngủ nướng ― to sleep in
    ngủ với ― to sleep with

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