đầu lâu
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 頭 (“head”) and 髏, probably corrupted from Chinese 髑髏/髑髅 (độc lâu, “dead skull”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗəw˨˩ ləw˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗəw˦˩ ləw˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɗəw˨˩ ləw˧˧]
Noun edit
- (colloquial) a skull of a dead vertebrate