trồng

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • (Northern Vietnam) giồng
  • (North Central Vietnam) lôông (phonetic spelling), lông (phonemic spelling)

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *m-loːŋ. Cognate with Muong tlồng.

Pronunciation

Verb

trồng • (, 𢲣, , , , , , 𣑺, , 𣙩, 𤿰, 󱹵)

  1. to plant
    Bố tôi đang trồng cây.
    My father is planting trees.
    • 1958, Hồ Chí Minh, paraphasing Guanzi in a speech to middle-school and high-school teachers attending a course in politics,[1]
      Vì lợi ích mười năm thì phải trồng cây, vì lợi ích trăm năm thì phải trồng người
      To benefit for ten years, must plant trees! To benefit for a hundred years, must cultivate people!

Derived terms

Derived terms

References

  1. Đào Ngọc Đệ (11 July 2010) "'Vì lợi ích mười năm thì phải trồng cây,...'('To benefit for ten years, must plant trees...') Lao Động (Labour) Newspaper.archived from the original
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