mãng cầu

Vietnamese

Etymology

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Particularly: “Perhaps from Chinese 芒果 (mángguǒ) (SV: "mãng quả"), with the second element replaced by the phonetically and semantically similar 球 (qiú) (SV: "cầu").”

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˦ˀ˥ kəw˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˧˨ kəw˦˩]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [maːŋ˨˩˦ kəw˨˩]

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, quả) mãng cầu

(Southern Vietnam) sugar apple
Synonyms: na, mãng cầu ta, sa lê, phan lệ chi

Derived terms

mãng cầu xiêm