dằn

Vietnamese edit

Etymology edit

Compare đằn.

Pronunciation edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zan˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jaŋ˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jaŋ˨˩]

Verb edit

dằn • (撊, 𢴍, 陳)

to press; to press under
to repress (feeling)
to bang down (something out of anger)
to stress (in one's voice)

Usage notes edit

Dằn In the compound adjective dữ dằn "fierce, ferocious" is possibly a fossil and derives from non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 寅 (“3rd Earth Branch; tiger in Chinese zodiac”, SV: dần); if so, dữ dằn would have originally meant "fierce, ferocious as a tiger".

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