Hoả Lò

See also: hoa lơ

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Hỏa Lò

Etymology

The demotic name (tên Nôm) for the village. Named after an eponymous steet, due to the concentration of stores selling wood stoves and coal-fire stoves along the street in pre-colonial times. Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 火爐 (SV: hoả lô).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hwaː˧˩ lɔ˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [hwaː˧˨ lɔ˦˩]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [waː˨˩˦ lɔ˨˩]

Proper noun

Hoả Lò

(historical) Phụ Khánh (a historical village in Vĩnh Xương canton, Thọ Xương district, Hanoi, Vietnam)
nhà tù Hoả Lò ― Hoả Lò Prison