cửa tiệm

Vietnamese

Etymology

cửa +‎ tiệm.

The usage of cửa (“door”) here, as well as in cửa hàng, cửa hiệu, likely started out as a classifier, but has become fixed and idiomatic so that it is no longer seen as a noun phrase consisting of classifier + noun by native speakers.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kɨə˧˩ tiəm˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɨə˧˨ tiəm˨˩ʔ]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kɨə˨˩˦ tim˨˩˨]

Noun

cửa tiệm

1. store, shop

See also

• cửa hàng
• tiệm